Alumni

•  IU has over 490,000 living alumni worldwide making this the third largest alumni body of any university in the United States. Over 250,000 of our alumni live and work in Indiana – approximately the population of Ft. Wayne.

Academic Excellence

•  Nearly 100 IU Bloomington programs and 11 programs at IUPUI are ranked in the top 25 according to the U.S. News and World Report .

>The graduate program at Kelley School of Business is ranked 9th among public universities with two disciplines ranked in the top 10--entrepreneurship and productions/operations. Five other specialties are ranked in the top 20,
> The IU School of Law in Bloomington is ranked 13th among publicly supported schools and the health care law program at IU School of Law at Indianapolis is ranked 8th,
> Primary care programs at the IU School of Medicine moved from 33rd to 16th in 2007,
> School of Nursing graduate program was ranked 15th with two top 10 rankings in clinical nursing specialties--adult medical-surgery (3rd), and psychiatric health (6th),
> IU School of Education graduate program continues to rank in the top 20, this year at 17th. It also had five specialty programs in the top 10.

•  IU's graduation rate at IU Bloomington is 72%, exceeding the national average of 57%.

•  IU has consistently won more student Fulbright fellowships than its Big Ten peers.

• IU School of Medicine students consistently score above the national average on the national medical licensing exam.

•  The IU faculty includes 117 Guggenheim Fellows, more than any other institution in Indiana. IU also has 42 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows. Only 10 other institutions have more AAAS fellows than IU.

•  This fall, four of our campuses welcomed the largest incoming classes in their history. The average SAT score for IU Bloomington freshmen was ten points higher that last year.

•  For the fall semester of 2006, the eight IU campuses are home to 4,735 international students. This represents a 5.3% increase from student enrollment in 2005 and has set a record for the largest number of international students enrolled at IU.

Economic Development

•  IU is the leading producer of graduates in all but one of the Top Ten “Hot Jobs” in Indiana. Over the last 10 years, IU has conferred:

•  67% of the state's degrees in human services and public administration

•  47% of the state's bachelor's, master's, and doctorates in education

•  41% of the state's degrees in communication and information technologies

•  100% of M.D. degrees, 100% of D.S. degrees, 100% of optometry degrees, and 47% of nursing degrees

•  The IU Research and Technology Corporation (IURTC), IU's agent for economic development, earned $6.67 million in license revenue during FY 2006. A record 257 invention disclosures were received with 63 licenses/options executed and 61 patent applications filed.

•  Indiana University is working to create an internationally competitive research community in life sciences in the state of Indiana, with a particular focus on areas of importance to the state's economic development and healthcare efforts. The IU Life Sciences Strategic Plan will capitalize on Indiana's exceptional assets in Indiana's dynamic life sciences industry.

• Since 1999, licensing revenues from IU School of Medicine discoveries have grown from $1.3 million to more than $5 million per year.

Research

•  FY 2006 was another exceptional year for Indiana University in funding of sponsored research. Awards totaling $421 million were received. IU attracted more sponsored research in this past fiscal year than all of Indiana's other 2-year and 4-year public institutions combined.

•  President Herbert has challenged the IU faculty to double the value of sponsored research projects within a decade. This goal would take IU from $383 million in FY 2003 or over $760 million by 2013.

• IU School of Medicine faculty have boosted the school's total research grants and contracts to a record $220 million, including $109 million from the National Institutes of Health.

•  “Big Red” is IU's latest investment in propelling research greatness. It is one of the two fastest supercomputers operated by an American university and is one of the top 25 fastest in the world.

Fundraising

•  As a result of the loyalty of IU's donors, at last count the university ranked first in the Big Ten in the number of endowed chairs totaling over 400. Endowed chairs are essential to the recruitment and retention of top flight faculty.

• For the most recent year in which rankings are available, IU is sixth among all public universities and seventeenth among all colleges and universities by receiving $247.5 million from the private sector. This total voluntary support is in the form of gifts and non-governmental research grants.

• IU consistently ranks among America's top 15 public universities in the market value of its endowment—totaling over $1.3 billion.

•  In just over two years, the IU Foundation has received gifts and pledges totaling more than $100 million to endow undergraduate scholarships at the Bloomington campus.

• The IU School of Medicine received more than $75 million in major gifts to support its research initiatives in 2006 and recently received a $30 million gift from Euguene and Marilyn Glick to establish the Glick Eye Institute.