AIC

AIC may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Alice in Chains, American rock band
• Anime International Company, a Japanese anime studio
• Art Institute of Chicago, an art museum in Chicago

Business

• AIC Diversified Canada, a Canadian mutual fund company
• Association of Investment Companies, also known as The Association of Investment Trust Companies, UK trade association for closed-ended investment companies

Charitable organizations

• Advocates for Informed Choice, now called Interact Advocates for Intersex Youth, a U.S. NGO
• Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli NGO
• American Indian Center, social and cultural center
• American Institute for Conservation, an American organization devoted to preserving historic works

Computing

• Adaptec integrated circuit
• Add-in card, or expansion card, a circuit board that adds functionality to a computer
• Apple Intermediate Codec, a video codec used on OS X

Economics

• Actual Individual Consumption, a measure of economic well-being alternative to Gross Domestic Product

Politics and government

• State Administration for Industry and Commerce, a Chinese regulatory agency
• African Independent Congress, a South African political party
• Arab-Israeli conflict, a long-running conflict between Israel and Arab countries
• American Iranian Council, a think tank devoted to improving US-Iranian relations
• Association Internationale du Congo, an organization promoting Leopold II's rule of the Congo and predecessor to the Congo Free State, active from 1879–1885
• Australian Intelligence Community, the government agencies that make up Australia's intelligence operations

Religion

• Africa Inland Church, a church in Eastern Africa related to Africa Inland Mission
• African Initiated Church, a Christian church founded by Africans, also known as African Independent Church, African Indigenous Church or African Instituted Church
• American Islamic Congress, an American Muslim organization
• Answers In Creation, an organization promoting Old Earth creationism

Schools

• Alcanta International College, a private secondary school in Guangzhou, China
• American International College, a college in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
• Art Institute of Colorado, a university in Denver
• Associated Independent Colleges, a group of eight colleges in Queensland, Australia
• Auckland International College, a private secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand
• Arizona International College

Science

• American Institute of Chemists, an American chemistry organization
• Ampere Interrupting Capacity, the maximum safe current in an electrical circuit
• Akaike's Information Criterion, used for checking statistical models

Sports

• Anglo-Italian Cup, a football competition played from 1970-1996 between the UK and Italy
• Associazione Italiana Calciatori, a football association in Italy

Statistics

• The Akaike information criterion is a measure of the relative quality of a statistical model, for a given data set

Transport and military

• AIC, the ICAO code for Air India
• Action Information Center, the tactical center on a warship or aircraft
• Ammunition Identification Code, the Ordnance Supply Catalog code designations for ammunition used by the US Army Ordnance Corps from 1942 to 1958.

Other uses

• Advocates for Informed Choice, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocacy for the rights of intersex children
• Aichach-Friedberg, a district in Bavaria, Germany
• Australian Institute of Criminology, an Australian research center on crime
• International Colour Association, also known as Association Internationale de la Couleur, an organization that studies colour