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IU Facts
The facts below are a reminder of Indiana University’s importance, from the high quality of an IU education to the ways IU research is driving economic development. You can use these points of pride to bolster the key messages you share with your elected officials.
Alumni
IU has more than 541,000 living graduates and more than 1.2 million alumni (who completed at least one IU class) worldwide, making our alumni body the third largest of any university in the United States. More than 270,000 IU graduates live in Indiana. Outside the United States, more than 9,400 IU graduates live in 157 countries.
Academic Excellence
Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom is the 8th Nobel prize winner from IU. Prof. Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at IU Bloomington. She is the first woman to receive the Nobel for Economics since its inception more than 40 years ago.
IU scholars include 8 Nobel Laureates, 7 Pulitzer Prize winners, 5 MacArthur Fellows and currently includes more than 30 active and emeritus members of the National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. IU also has 127 winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship, dating back to 1939.
Several IU graduate schools and programs are ranked among the nation's Top 25 by U.S. News and World Report magazine in its latest annual report, "America's Best Graduate Schools."
- The IU Maurer School of Law was ranked 7th among public institutions and 23rd overall, up from 27th in 2010. The writing program at the IU School of Law-Indianapolis was ranked 8th, the third consecutive year it has bee in the top 10 in a national survey of faculty who teach legal writing.
- The IU School of Nursing at IUPUI ranked 15th overall and 10th among public nursing schools. The school's clinical nurse specialist program for the adult/medical-surgical specialty ranked 3rd nationally. There are more than 700 accredited nursing programs in the U.S.
- The IU School of Education ranked 21st overall and 11th among publics. It also had five specialty programs in the top 10--counseling and personnel services (9th), elementary education (8th), secondary education (10th), higher education administration (5th), and curriculum/instruction (10th).
- Kelley School of Business Bloomington was ranked 23rd overall and 8th among public institutions. The part-time program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis ranked 11th overall and 5th among public universities. Three of Kelley School's specialties were highlighted by peers, with entrepreneurship at 9th overall and 3rd among public institutions, production/operations at 10th overall and 3rd among public schools, and accounting at 11th overall and 6th among publics.
- The Evening Master of Business Administration program at IUPUI is ranked 11th overall and 5th among public business schools.
- The School of Medicine at IUPUI ranked 51st for research and 24th for primary care. The Schools is ranked among the top 20 public medical schools in the nation for grant funding.
IU Bloomington and IUPUI were acknowledged as offering some of the best experiences for undergraduate students in the 2011 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News ranked IU Bloomington 32nd among public national research universities.
- The undergraduate program at the Kelley School of Business was ranked 10th overall and sixth among public universities, with the entrepreneurship program ranking first among public schools and third overall.
- IUPUI was ranked 47th among all national colleges and universities by high school guidance counselors as a "top choice" university.
- IUPUI was ranked seventh in a separate listing of national universities "to watch," up from 14th a year ago.
- Both IU Bloomington and IUPUI were recognized for "enriching the experience" for students.
Fortune magazine ranked the top five entrepreneurship programs with IU's Kelley School listed as No. 2 overall and the No. 1 public university in its March 22 issue.
Kelley School of Business moved up one spot to 19th in Bloomberg Business Week magazine's new evaluations of undergraduate business programs, and remains second among Big Ten schools and seventh among such programs at public universities
IU students have consistently won more Fulbright fellowships than their Big Ten peers. Thirty-three Indiana University students were awarded 2008-09 Fulbright grants—a 65 percent increase over last year.
IU Bloomington ranks in the top 20 universities nationally both for numbers of international students studying at IUB and for IU students studying abroad, according to a report from the Institute of International Education.
IU School of Medicine students consistently score above the national average on the national medical licensing exam.
The IU faculty includes 123 Guggenheim Fellows, more than any other institution in Indiana. Since 1998, at least one IU faculty member has won a fellowship each year. IU also has 42 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows. Only 10 other institutions have more AAAS Fellows than IU.
Economic Development
The IU Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC), IU’s agent for economic development, received 131 invention disclosures, executed 34 licenses, and helped form six new businesses in fiscal year 2009. IU faculty and staff filed a record 210 patent applications.
IU recently announced the $10M Innovate Indiana Fund. The fund will provide $5 million over the next five years in early stage seed funds and another $5 million over that same time for late stage seed investment. Individual early seed investments will range from $50,000 to $150,000 each, while late seed investments will range from $150,000 to $350,000 each.
The Indiana Innovation Alliance unites IU and Purdue with other universities, businesses, economic development groups, health care enterprises (including nonprofits), and the state government in an effort to attract and retain bright, entrepreneurial people whose scientific research will lead to more and better jobs and new innovations that bolster Indiana’s economy. The Alliance will also expand medical education and health care innovations that will have a significant impact on the future delivery of health care to Hoosiers.
Since 1999, licensing revenues from IU School of Medicine discoveries have grown from $1.3 million to more than $5 million per year.
Research
Indiana University received a record $603.9 million in grants and awards for research and other sponsored programs during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. The new record amount surpasses the previous mark of $525.3 million set during the 2007-2008 fiscal year and includes new highs for amounts received from federal, state and non-profit sources (excluding foundations). Overall, income from grants and awards for research was up 28.7 percent over the $469.4 million IU received last year.
IU's Indianapolis campus saw its award income increase nearly 40 percent over the previous year to just over $400 million, while the Bloomington campus saw its award income jump 14.6 percent to $158 million. IU East led all other campuses with $6 million in awards.
IU’s “Big Red” is one of the fastest supercomputers owned and operated by a U.S. university, bolstering IU’s research capabilities in the life sciences, weather forecasting, and physics.
Fundraising
The Council for Aid to Education ranked IU 1st in the nation among public universities, 1st in the Big Ten and 9th among all colleges and universities nationwide in the amount of support received from the private sector in fiscal year 2010. Together, all campuses of IU received $342.8 million from gifts through the IU Foundation and Riley Children's Foundation and from non-governmental research grants. The total is a 38.5% increase over fiscal year 2009.
Giving to the university in 2010 was the third highest level on record - $166.8 million. The $161.7 million in grants awarded by the private sector to faculty researchers is a university record and a 30.5% increase over IU's previous record of $123.9 million.
Indiana University concluded the $1.144 billion Matching the Promise campaign, the most successful fundraising campaign in university history. The campaign raised $338.3 million for undergraduate and graduate student support. This has assisted in reducing the average out-of-pocket cost for in-state students by $1,200 or 12% over the last four years.
IUPUI has publicly launched its most ambitious campaign goal of $1.25 billion. The goals of the campaign are to support extraordinary student success, excel as a center for health and life sciences, champion civic engagement, and thrive as an urban research campus.
IU received $342.8 million in private sector support in fiscal year 2010. The total voluntary support is 38% more than FY 2009 and includes $166.8 million in gifts made to the IU Foundation (45% increase), $14.3 million in gifts to the Riley Children’s Foundation (22.2 % increase), and an additional $161.7 million from non-governmental contracts and research grant awards (33% increase).
As a result of the loyalty of IU’s donors, at last count the university ranked first in the Big Ten in the number of endowed chairs, totaling 413. Endowed chairs are essential to the recruitment and retention of top-flight faculty.
During the past decade, only three other public universities have received more total voluntary support than IU: Berkley, the University of Wisconsin, and UCLA.
IU ranks 11th among public universities in the nation and 5th in the Big Ten in the market value of its endowment, which totaled $1.23 billion as of June 30, 2009.
