Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania
logo
motto Beyond Expectations
founding 1875
Sponsorship public
place Indiana
president David J. Werner (interim)
Students 15,126 (2010)
Employee 700 (scientific staff 2009)
Annual budget $ 34.1 million
Website www.iup.edu

The Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) - not to be confused with Indiana University or the University of Pennsylvania - is a public university in Indiana County , Pennsylvania , USA . The university is 89 km northeast of Pittsburgh . It is the largest university in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PaSSHE) and is the fifth largest in the state. IUP has offices in Punxsutawney , Northpointe and Monroeville .

IUP offers more than 140 undergraduate programs and 70 graduate programs, in eight colleges :

  • Eberly College of Business and Information Technology
  • College of Education and Educational Technology
  • College of Fine Arts
  • College of Health and Human Services
  • School of Graduate Studies and Research
  • College of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • School of Continuing Education

campus

On the 1.5 km² main campus of the IUP there is a mixture of 63 old and new buildings made of red brick. The original building, the Victorian John Sutton Hall , is a listed building .

literature

  • Juliette, Ron, and Dale E. Landon: Our Homage and Our Love , 1991.
  • John Edward Merryman: The Indiana Story 1875-1975: Pennsylvania's First State University ... , 1976.
  • Grace Stewart: A History of the Indiana State Normal School.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. As of June 2009. US and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009 (PDF; 194 kB) In: 2009 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments . National Association of College and University Business Officers. Archived from the original on December 14, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
  2. ^ Peterson's, "Four-Year Colleges, 2008."
  3. ^ "National Register Listed and NHL Properties," Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission Bureau for Historic Preservation (Jan. 2, 2007), p. 75.