IUPUI Quick Facts

U.S. News and World Report Graduate School Rankings

2009 rankings
Nursing	Clinical Adult	3	source
Public Affairs	Non-Profit Mgmt	3	source
Nursing	Clinical Psychiatric	6	source
Law	Overall	68	source
Public Affairs	Overall	45	source
Nursing	Overall	15	source

2008 rankings
Nursing	Clinical Adult	4
Public Affairs	Non-Profit Mgmt	4
Nursing	Clinical Psychiatric	5
Nursing	Nursing Services Admin	7
Law	Health	8
Nursing	Family Practitioner	12
Public Affairs	Health Pol Mgmt	12
Law	Legal Writing	14
Nursing	Overall	15
Public Affairs	Env Policy Mgmt	17
Nursing	Pediatrics Practitioner	19
Community Health	Overall	30
Public Affairs	Pub Mgmt Admin	30

The Campus

Established	19691
Employees (2007-2008)	6,850 full-time1
Operating Budget (2007-2008)	$1.05 billion1
Portion of IU total budget	43.9 percent1
Research Funds (2007-2008)	$302 million2
IUPUI-owned acreage	5091
Gross square feet in facilities	9.8 million1
Residence hall spaces	1,0521
1: IU Factbook, 2007-08 2: IMIR

• IUPUI is home to the only professional medical and dental schools in the state and our nursing school is the largest multi-discipline nursing school in the nation.
• The IUPUI campus ranks among the top 20 in the country in the number of first professional and health-related degrees it confers.

Our Faculty

Faculty with a professional or doctoral degree	90%
Faculty members (2007-2008)	2,475 full-time
Student to faculty ratio	9:1
Source: IU Factbook, 2007-08

Our Students

Number of students (Fall 2008)	30,300
Graduates (2007-2008)	6,250
Number of states represented in IUPUI's student body	50
Number of countries represented in IUPUI's student body	122
Number of international students (Fall 2008)	1300
Students under Age 25	63 percent
Full-time, traditional-age students	40 percent
Minorities	15 percent
Entered as fall, full-time beginning students	35 percent
Transfer students	51 percent
Undergraduates from Indiana	97 percent
Students who ranked in top 10 percent of their high school class	11 percent
Students who reported IUPUI as first choice (Includes only students who applied to other schools)	63 percent

Our Alumni

Number of living alumni from the IUPUI campus	130,953
Portion of alumni who live in Indiana	67 percent

• IUPUI alumni account for 85 percent of Indiana's dentists, half of the physicians, nearly half of the state's lawyers, more than a third of the nurses, and a large percentage of the health and rehabilitation sciences and social work professionals.
• IUPUI has more than 130,000 living alumni.
• 67% of IUPUI alumni remain in Indiana after they graduate.
• Of 508,374 Indiana University alumni, 254,673 live in Indiana. Of those, 77,656 are IUPUI graduates, compared to 114,004 for IU Bloomington.

Our Academic Programs

Number of schools and Academic Units	20
Authorized degree programs	304 (211 IU, 93 PU)
Percent of degrees that are baccalaureate	50
Percent of degrees that are master's	27
Percent of degrees that are professional	11
Schools conferring the largest number of baccalaureate degrees (in 2005-06)
Continuing Studies	408
Engineering & Technology	375
Business	341
Liberal Arts	279
Science	253
Schools conferring the largest number of master's degrees (in 2005-06)
Business	382
Social Work	179
Education	162
Science	125
Nursing	106
Schools with largest enrollments (Fall 2006)
University College	6,997
Engineering & Technology	2,287
Business	2,173
Science	1,936
Education	1,829
Liberal Arts	1,601

• The IUPUI campus ranks among the top 20 in the country in the number of first professional and health-related degrees it confers.
• IUPUI was one of 22 universities nationwide recognized in four or more of the U.S. News "Programs to Watch" categories. They were: Learning Communities, First-Year Experiences, Service Learning, and Undergraduate Research.
• IUPUI was ranked the 7th best academic institution, and the 26th best overall, place to work in the country by postdoctoral fellows in 2008. (source)
• IUPUI received the Council for Higher Education Award for Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes in 2006 for implementation of Principles of Undergraduate Learning (source [PDF]).
• TIAA-CREF selected IUPUI as one of two institutions to receive a Theodore M. Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence in 2006 (source).
• U.S. News and World Report named IUPUI a school "Everyone Should Be Watching."
• The School of Engineering & Technology is second in the nation in the number of Engineering Technology bachelor degrees awarded.
• The School of Engineering & Technology is first in the nation in the number of Engineering Technology degrees awarded to women.
• The School of Engineering & Technology has the seventh largest Engineering Technology enrollment in the country.
• Other accolades include: Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll Presidential Award, 2006; Savior of Our Cities, 2006; Colleges with a Conscience, 2005; Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s Institutional Progress in Student Learning Outcomes, 2006.

Health & Life Sciences at IUPUI

• Riley Hospital for Children, affiliated with the IU School of Medicine, was rated one of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News and World Report in 2009, with seven of its programs ranked in the top 30 in the country. [source]
• IUPUI offers more than 130 life and health science-related degrees in 12 schools
• More than 1,300 students graduate from IUPUI each year prepared for careers in life and health sciences
• 94% of the research on IUPUI's campus is life and health science related, totaling more than $300 million in outside research funds in 07-08.
• IUPUI is well positioned to be a leader in health and life science research with the second largest medical school and the largest nursing school in the nation combined with the basic research at the School of Science
• Cutting-edge research is taking place at IUPUI in cancer research, diagnosis and treatment; diabetes treatment and the accompanying conditions of obesity and vascular disease; bio-analytical chemistry; and neuroscience.
• The only professional dental school in the state is located on the IUPUI campus and educates more than 85% of the dentists in the state and is home to the Oral Health Research Institute, a leading center for preventive dentistry research.
• A Lilly Endowment grant funded the Indiana Genomics Initiative, a partnership effort between the IU School of Medicine and University Information Technology Services to unravel the mysteries of the human genome sequence
• The School of Nursing is ranked 8th among all nursing schools with regard to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.

Our Economic Impact

• IUPUI has more than 6,850 full-time staff and faculty along with 1,000 part-time employees
• The IU Medical School alone has an economic impact of nearly $650 million, 8,834 jobs and $6.5 million in state income taxes
• IUPUI creates an infrastructure supportive of innovation with the research conducted here and the work of the IU Emerging Technologies Center to increase patents, license agreements and spin-off companies. The IUETC has housed over 30 companies, graduated 6 companies and created over 310 Hoosier jobs at an average salary of $61,000.
• IUPUI currently has more than $525 million in construction occurring on campus.
• Centers like the Indiana Business Research Center and the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment provide data and consulting services to local and state government, businesses and organizations.
• Sixty-seven percent of IUPUI alumni remain in Indiana after they graduate.
• More than 60% of IUPUI students are first-generation college students, contributing to efforts to raise the educational level of the state.
• One out of every 10 Indianapolis residents has attended or graduated from IUPUI.
• The number of invention disclosures from IUPUI investigators was 200 in fiscal year 2006. The School of Medicine accounted for 82% of these disclosures.

Our Civic Engagement

• IUPUI was ranked fourth of 25 colleges and universities deemed to be "Saviors of Our Cities" for contributions to strengthening the economy and quality of life of our neighboring community.
• IUPUI is listed by Princeton Review as a "College with a Conscience" for its outstanding commitment to community involvement.
• IUPUI received the President's Community Service Higher Education Honor Roll award in 2006.
• The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration formed a health work group comprised of IUPUI faculty from the schools of medicine, law, and public and environmental affairs. The workgroup will focus on alternative strategies to address the future of healthcare delivery in Indiana.
• The Center for Urban Policy and the Environment staffed the Commission on Local Government Reform created by Governor Daniels to assess the structure of local government in Indiana.
• IUPUI has a Memorandum of Understanding with Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet School designed to provide their teachers with access to resources at IUPUI and expand the students' opportunities for higher education.