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Indiana University, main campus at Bloomington; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1820 as a seminary, opened 1824. It became a college in 1828 and a university in 1838. The medical center (run jointly with Purdue Univ.) is at Indianapolis, and there are campuses at South Bend, Kokomo, Fort Wayne, Gary, New Albany, and Richmond, as well as extension centers throughout the state. Research facilities include the Center on Global Change and World Peace and the Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center.


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Indiana University
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Latin: Indianensis Universitatis
Motto Lux et Veritas
(Light and Truth)
Established 1820
Type Public University system
President Dr. Michael McRobbie
Faculty 5,172 Full Time, 2,173 Part-Time university-wide[1]
Students 101,727 university-wide[1]
Undergraduates 80,874 university-wide[1]
Postgraduates 17,032 university-wide[1]
Location Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Campus 3,636 acres across 9 campuses[1]
degree programs 1,055 authorized programs[1]
Colors cream and crimson
Website www.indiana.edu
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Indiana University, founded in 1820 as the Indiana State Seminary and renamed the Indiana College in 1846, is a nine-campus university system in the state of Indiana. The IU system includes the following campuses:

(the main flagship campus, and often referred to as "Indiana University Bloomington," "IUB," or "IU")

The system also operates two university campuses in cooperation with Purdue University:

Furthermore, there is another small campus associated with IUPUI:

The IUPUI campus also hosts the Indiana University Medical Center, the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and the Indiana University School of Dentistry, all of which are on IUPUI's campus but technically independent of IUPUI.

There is also the Indiana University School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

As of Fall 2008, the number of students at Indiana University is 101,727[1]; many of these students study at the main Bloomington campus (40,354 students[1]) and at IUPUI (30,300 students[1]).

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "2008-09 IU Factbook". Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). http://www.iu.edu/~upira/reports/standard/doc/fact%20book/fact_book_0809.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-04. 


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