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Since its founding in 1875, Indiana University of Pennsylvania has progressed and evolved to match the changing needs of those it serves. Today, IUP has a diverse, vibrant, research-based, and student-centered community comprising distinguished faculty and more than fourteen thousand undergraduate and graduate students from across the nation and around the world.

Consider the extensive choices and resources of the fifth-largest university in the state—including roughly 140 undergraduate degree programs, a nationally recognized honors college, and more than fifty graduate programs, including numerous doctoral programs. All are offered at a cost much less than state-related and private universities. With an extensive network of grant-funded centers, IUP's faculty are fully engaged in a variety of research projects in which they involve graduate and undergraduate students. Students enjoy a supportive learning environment that prepares them for meaningful careers as well as productive and meaningful lives of leadership, service, and distinction.

At IUP, students learn from Fulbright Scholars, Rome Prize winners, and other faculty members who have been recognized by numerous learned societies for dedication to their respective fields. As a result, the university has an alumni body that includes leaders in the corporate world, in government, and in public service. IUP alumni include many Army generals, the CEO of Sodexho, the CEO of ExxonMobil, numerous school district superintendents, several college presidents, and a number of scientists and manufacturers who hold patents. For example, Chad Hurley went here, and then he invented YouTube.

The following are the vision and mission statements of IUP as the university moves forward in the next five years:

Indiana University of Pennsylvania shall be among the nation’s leading universities, recognized for student success and educational attainment, research, cultural enrichment, and economic development.

Mission

Indiana University of Pennsylvania is a leading public, doctoral/research university, strongly committed to undergraduate and graduate instruction, scholarship, and public service.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania engages students as learners and leaders in an intellectually challenging, culturally enriched, and contemporarily diverse environment.

Inspired by a dedicated faculty and staff, students become productive national and world citizens who exceed expectations personally and professionally.

The University

Founded in 1875, IUP is a vibrant, comprehensive, research-based, teaching-focused, student-centered learning community that goes beyond what one would expect from a state school. Find more facts about IUP.

IUP combines the opportunities of a big university with the highly personalized and intimate learning-centered environment of a small college.

More than fourteen thousand undergraduate and graduate students are currently enrolled in the accredited and nationally recognized programs at IUP, enjoying traditional and nontraditional classroom experiences, engaging in research and service activities with their faculty mentors, becoming lifelong learners, preparing for rewarding careers and productive lives, and developing leadership skills for effective citizenship.

IUP also makes significant contributions to the economic and cultural strength of the region, the commonwealth, and the nation through education, scholarship, and service, both as an individual institution and through collaboration within the State System of Higher Education, with other educational institutions, and with business, government, human services, and professional organizations.

IUP is consistently ranked among the best institutions in the region for cost, quality, and comfort by a wide variety of sources including The Princeton Review’s Best Colleges publications; Donald Asher’s Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming and Just Plain Different; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine; Arco’s Dollarwise Guide to American Colleges; Barron’s Best Buys in College Education; The New York Times; Money magazine; and U.S. News and World Report, among others.

IUP is accredited by the Middle States Association Commission on Higher Education.
o The Campus
o The Students
o The Faculty
o The Degrees
o Student Life
o The Athletics
o The School Colors
o The Value

The Campus

IUP’s beautiful main campus is located in Indiana, Pa., and spans more than 350 acres. A combination of historical charm and state-of-the-art facilities, it includes seventy-five major buildings and eleven athletic fields.

Affiliate campuses are located in Northpointe (Armstrong County) and Punxsutawney, Pa.

The IUP Academy of Culinary Arts also is in Punxsutawney.

IUP offers courses through the State System’s Dixon Center in Harrisburg and through distance education.

The Stapleton/Stabley building, located on the Indiana campus, is the central university library. The IUP library system has a collection of more than 900,000 books, maintains subscriptions to about fifteen thousand serials in multiple formats, and houses more than a hundred thousand audiovisual materials.

The Students

IUP students are bright, inquisitive, and accomplished. In 2006, IUP students included a Fulbright Scholarship winner, a Goldwater Scholarship winner, and a Syed Ali-Zaidi Award winner. In Fall 2007, there were:

* 14,018 students—44 percent male; 56 percent female; 8 percent of nontraditional age
* 11,724 undergraduates
* 2,294 graduate students
* 1,811 (13 percent) minority students
* 626 (4 percent) international students
* Students from forty-five states and seventy-three countries
* 3,851 (27 percent) living on campus

The Faculty

IUP students enjoy an 18-to-1 student/faculty ratio. Our faculty scholars love to teach. Nearly all classes are taught by faculty members, as opposed to graduate assistants.

Since 1959, IUP faculty members have won nearly sixty Fulbright Teacher Exchange Awards, allowing faculty to study and research in more than a score of countries.

Faculty research has been sponsored by institutions such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Chemical Society, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Education.

IUP faculty members regularly publish books and edit, coordinate, and contribute to professional journals.

The Degrees

Not only does IUP offer an abundance of undergraduate and master’s programs, but it is the only state university to offer degrees at the doctoral level. Degrees are offered from the broader, more traditional (philosophy, anthropology) to the career specific (safety sciences, respiratory therapy). IUP boasts:

More than one hundred forty undergraduate degree programs, which combine a rigorous curriculum with numerous internship, study-abroad, research, and other experiential learning opportunities
A nationally renowned honors program through the Robert E. Cook Honors College
Sixty-one master’s programs
Ten doctoral degrees

Student Life

IUP students benefit from the leadership, professional, service, and social and personal opportunities offered by more than two hundred exciting student clubs and organizations, including eighteen fraternities and fourteen sororities. Find out more about student life at IUP.
The Athletics

IUP competes in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and is an NCAA Division II member.

The university sponsors eight varsity sports for men and eleven for women.
Scholarships are available for all varsity sports.
IUP students also get involved in a variety of club and intramural sports.

IUP is nationally recognized for offering an education of real value. In addition to keeping tuition costs competitive (undergraduate tuition, not including housing or dining, for the 2007–2008 academic year was $6,695; graduate tuition was $7,544), IUP also disburses substantial financial aid in the form of scholarships, grants, work-study programs, and low-interest loans. In fact, more than 70 percent of IUP students receive financial assistance in one form or another.

  • Jan 04

     

    Category: Event

    Are you an IUP alum living in the New York metro area? Stay tuned here for information about the upcoming Multi School Alumni Job Fair to be held in NYC in May, 2009. More than 30 schools are participating. This is a great opportunity to meet new employers and converse wi...

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