AIT’s Strategy 2013 defines four core strategies for the future of AIT:
- Strengthen Internationality as a Regional Network Institute,
- Excellence and Relevance in Education, Research and Outreach,
- Positioning and Branding
- Development and Resources Management
Based on these strategies, AIT will present itself as a platform of higher education for scholars (students, faculty and researchers) from inside and outside the region to participate in creating solutions for the region. A desirable distribution of scholars that would contribute to AIT’s unique multi-cultural atmosphere would be one-quarter from each of the following regions: (1) Southeast Asia, (2) South Asia and the Middle East, (3) East and Central Asia, and (4) the rest of the world.
AIT positions itself as an incubator of emerging technologies by engaging visiting scholars from universities worldwide to perform joint research and collaborative teaching at AIT. As an incubator, AIT shall further embrace new technologies (subjects) that contribute to a community’s growth and establish small, prominent programs that are not well-known throughout the world. Both students and faculty would be attracted to such niche and dynamic programs, and emerging technology programs will further attract private sector funding.