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Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania provides an intellectually challenging experience to more than 14,000 students at the university's three campuses, all easily accessible from the entire Middle Atlantic region and from the Midwest. IUP's primary campus is located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, sixty miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
Academic offerings include 120 undergraduate majors with a variety of internship and study-abroad programs, 48 master's degree programs, and eight doctoral-degree programs. Unusual opportunities for research at all levels and the Robert E. Cook Honors College afford special challenges for academic growth.
IUP has been recognized by numerous publications for its high academic standards and competitive costs. Most recently, the university was cited in the 2007 edition of Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges, and its Eberly College of Business and Information Technology was included in The Best 237 Business Schools, 2006 edition.
IUP's main campus is located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, a safe, livable town in the Allegheny foothills about an hour northeast of Pittsburgh with a population of about 30,000. Indiana is a place where baseball games, friendly shops, and gracious, tree-lined streets seem totally appropriate.
IUP draws its enrollment from nearly every state and scores of countries throughout the world. With its three campuses Indiana, Punxsutawney, and Northpointe (in Armstrong County) IUP is the largest of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the only one that grants doctoral degrees. The current enrollment of more than 14,000 includes nearly 2,300 graduate students.
With its original building from 1875 still standing at the heart of the campus, IUP has a long tradition of academic excellence. The university was founded in 1875 as a Normal School with 225 students and in 1927 became a State Teachers College. In 1959, the college's name was again changed, this time to Indiana State College.
Indiana State College achieved university status in 1965, after which enrollment continued to grow rapidly. IUP has more than 104,000 living alumni who received undergraduate degrees; nearly eight thousand alumni have received graduate degrees.
Between 500 and 600 international students, representing more than 70 countries, are part of the IUP community in graduate and undergraduate classes as well as the American Language Institute (teaching English as a second language) and in practical training programs. In return, close to 500 IUP students with the U.S. as their country of origin take advantage of studying abroad in one of the 135 different universities worldwide where IUP has recognized exchanges, including student teaching exchanges.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania Contact: Admissions Office — 800-442-6830 |
Indiana has a rich heritage, with plenty of early 19th-century buildings gracing the downtown area. The business of growing Christmas trees originated here early in the century, and tree farms dot the county's rolling hills. But Indiana is also a forward-looking, contemporary center of commerce and tourism.
The area offers a wealth of outdoor activities, too. IUP, through its Student Cooperative Association, runs its own recreational park near campus nearly 280 wooded acres that include nature trails, a Parcourse, a fishing pond, and picnic and camping shelters or you can head for the hills on your own. The Student Cooperative Association also maintains a sailing base at nearby Yellow Creek State Park, where members of the IUP community may rent sailing equipment. Three ski resorts are within an hour's drive from campus, as are numerous golf courses.
