About Our Community
Los Angeles is a city like no other. You can hike through desert sand, catch the perfect wave, and carve turns down a mountain slope-and you can do it all within a few hours' drive of LA. Or you can stay in the city and spot your favorite celebrity at a movie premiere, go shopping on Rodeo Drive or Melrose, hit the Museum of Contemporary Art, or listen to up-and-coming bands in West Hollywood. Whatever you're looking for, Los Angeles is sure to have it. The 329 days (on average) of sun LA gets every year are just icing on the cake.
A community of nearly 4 million people from over 140 countries, Los Angeles is exciting in its diversity of cultural and social activities. The diversity isn't limited to just the city's ethnic neighborhoods-which include everything from Chinatown to Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Persia, and Thai Town-however. The city's economy is driven by international trade, entertainment, fashion, aerospace, agriculture, petroleum, and tourism. LA is also the country's largest center of manufacturing and home to three Fortune 500 companies (Northup Grumman, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and KB Home) and numerous other companies such as Twentieth Century Fox, Guess, Inc., The Jim Henson Company, Sunkist, and Health Net, Inc., to name just a few.
For students at AIU Los Angeles, whether you're interning at a movie studio or wandering the galleries of the Getty Center, the classroom extends well beyond our school campus.