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
.
As of fall
2008, the number of students at Indiana University is 101,727; many
of these students study at the main Bloomington
campus
(40,354 students) and at IUPUI
(30,300
students).
Campuses
The IU system includes the following campuses:
- Indiana University
in Bloomington, Indiana
, the main flagship campus, and often referred to as
"Indiana University Bloomington," "IUB," or "IU"
- Indiana University East
in Richmond, Indiana
- Indiana University Kokomo
in Kokomo, Indiana
- Indiana University Northwest
in Gary,
Indiana
- Indiana University South Bend
in South Bend, Indiana
- Indiana University Southeast
in New Albany, Indiana
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
.
The
university also includes the Indiana University School of Medicine
at the University of Notre Dame
in South Bend, Indiana
.
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