by our College Data Analytics Team
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Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis was awarded 100 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is social work.
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IUPUI is ranked #253 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when IUPUI held the #274 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
IUPUI also holds the #7 spot on the Best Colleges in Indiana ranking.
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The acceptance rate at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is 83%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that IUPUI is a good fit for you.
About 31% of students accepted to IUPUI submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 630. Math scores were between 520 and 620.
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With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is 52%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is 71%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At IUPUI this rate is 33%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 20,966 undergraduates at IUPUI with 17,311 being full-time and 3,655 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $6,000 | $7,098 | $11,606 | $18,428 | $19,487 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of IUPUI, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At IUPUI, approximately 37% of students took out student loans averaging $6,420 a year. That adds up to $25,680 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at IUPUI is 1.0%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for IUPUI are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 420 University Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5143 |
| Phone: | 317-274-5555 |
| Website: | https://indianapolis.iu.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Business/Commerce | 800 | $52,467 |
| Nursing | 790 | $68,136 |
| Medicine | 335 | NA |
| Law | 250 | NA |
| General Psychology | 237 | $34,432 |
| Computer Information Systems | 211 | $54,564 |
| General Biology | 209 | $36,343 |
| Public Health | 202 | $42,152 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 198 | $69,746 |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 194 | $46,744 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 13,962 students took at least one online class at Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. This is a decrease from the 15,155 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 13,962 | 3,059 |
| 2021-2022 | 15,155 | 3,576 |
| 2020-2021 | 26,062 | 8,459 |
| 2018-2019 | 11,620 | 2,233 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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