Thursday, December 9, 2010

Indiana - Not Your Average Public School


A world-renowned music school, a distinguished language program and a well-respected business school makes Indiana not your average state school. The strong artistic community may also explain the more liberal culture the school maintains.  However, it does have a lot in common with those big midwestern powerhouses as well.  It’s size, approximately 29,000 undergraduate and 6,000 graduate students, strong athletics (the kind movies are made of ) and 18 schools and colleges are characteristics of a big state school.  The advantage being IU can provide a great variety of intellectual pursuits and opportunities.  The strongest programs are said to be accounting, business, chemistry, journalism/communications, languages, music and optometry.  Regarding the social life, the most active group is the greek system but it only involve a minority of the students (16% men and 18% women).  Other groups and clubs have their own events and certainly athletics can bring in the crowds. Bloomington is also a charming college town offering great restaurants, and bars serving the university community.  

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