ACU is affiliated with a corporation called International Management Association, headquartered in Hong Kong.
[5] Formerly, American City University was the name of an institution that operated in Wyoming, where it was one of a dozen unaccredited offerors of higher education by distance learning that operated under a permissive state higher education law and were suspected of being diploma mills.
[7][8][9] ACU operated in 14 other locations worldwide, including sites in London; Limerick and Cork, Ireland; Kyiv; Macedonia; Dubai; Beirut; Athens; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; the Philippines; and Malaysia.
[10] The school is alleged to have marketed an MBA program in Vietnam that did not deliver the promised value to the students it enrolled.
"[16] ACU became a member of the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS) in May 2009.