IUPUI is one of eight campuses of Indiana University and includes two Purdue University schools. The campus offers 180 degrees provided by 20 different schools. Its over 27,000 students represent 49 states and 122 countries. Approximately, 20,000 of these students are undergraduates, with about an equal mix of traditional and adult students. Undergraduate students annually use more than $61 million dollars in financial assistance as they juggle jobs, families, community service, and academic pursuits. Eac h year some 4,000 students earn IU or PU degrees.
IUPUI includes the only medical and dental schools in the state, the nation’s largest nursing school, and the country’s oldest school of physical education. IUPUI is among the nation’s ten largest sites for graduate professional education. With strong tra ditions in professional education, IUPUI is simultaneously developing new strengths in interdisciplinary inquiry, linking disciplines with professions in ways that advance research, professional service, and learning. With external support of about $130 m illion in the past fiscal year, IUPUI is the second largest site for research in Indiana. With more than 3,000 full-time, tenured, or tenure-track faculty and 800 associate faculty, IUPUI is proud of its teaching record and works to improve its teaching w ith on-going assessment and professional development. The creation of the state-wide community college system will redefine IUPUI’s undergraduate mission. One result will be that IUPUI will offer little or no remedial work. Rather, building on its prior p artnerships and articulations with Ivy Tech State College and Vincennes University, IUPUI will continue to expand its strategies for ensuring smooth transitions between the two-year institutions and IUPUI. IUPUI aspires to be a model for urban universitie s nationally as well as internationally.
IUPUI is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Individual school and academic programs are also accredited. For example, the Kelley School of Business and the School of Engineering and Technology programs are accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), respectively.
IUPUI has over 105,000 alumni living worldwide and an expanding and active alumni relations program to serve the growing IUPUI campus. Over 70,000 alumni live in Indiana, with two-thirds of that number in the Indianapolis area. The rest are spread around the world with strong contingents in far-flung places such as Malaysia.
Indiana University–Purdue University Columbus, created in 1970 (one year after the creation of IUPUI), is located one hour south of Indianapolis in the sophisticated, yet rural, town of Columbus, Indiana. This well-known town has been called an “architect ural mecca,” boasting the exciting works of numerous internationally known architects. IUPU Columbus is administratively and academically linked with IUPUI. All IUPU Columbus faculty are part of their related departments in Indianapolis. There are 35 full -time faculty, who are highly regarded both nationally and internationally, and 162 adjunct faculty. Both full-time and adjunct faculty teach at the Columbus campus and at its off-campus locations, including Batesville, Franklin, Greensburg, Madison, Seym our, Shelbyville, and St. Leon. These sites are located in the 12-county service area of IUPU Columbus, including the counties of Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, Jennings, Johnson, Ohio, Ripley, Scott, Shelby, and Switzerland.
Nearly 1,900 students are enrolled at IUPU Columbus. Fifty-five percent of the student body is traditional, and 69 percent attend part time. IUPU Columbus offers the advantage of affordability and small class size (average student-instructor ratio of 18:1 ), along with the high quality students would expect at any IU or Purdue campus.
For Columbus-specific information relating to admission, registration, financial aid, scholarships, placement testing, academic advising, orientation, and student activities, see the IUPU Columbus section later in this bulletin.
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Fields of study or disciplines are housed in schools at IUPUI. School policies and procedures govern all the students within each school. Most fields of study are housed in departments within the schools, but in some schools they may be called other things, such as divisions. The departments and schools themselves determine degree requirements and whether students are eligible to receive a degree. Students must be in a school and take a specific number of courses (residence requirements) to be eligible for a degree. A current list of degree programs appears online.
Sections later in this bulletin cover each school in alphabetical order. The material includes general school policies and procedures, followed by school and then specific degree requirements for all the degrees offered by the school including associate’s, bachelor’s (or baccalaureate), master’s, and doctoral degrees. Special teacher certification and honors information is also included where relevant. This material is followed by course descriptions. There is also a list of full-time faculty in the department or program. More information on individual faculty is available in a comprehensive listing of full-time faculty at the end of each school section.