2025 Net Position: $6.00B (Page 17)
The Indiana University satellite campus in Indianapolis, now known as Indiana University Indianapolis, traces its roots to 1891 when IU first offered classes in the city. It expanded through various extension programs, including the IU School of Medicine (1903) and other professional schools.
In 1969, Indiana University and Purdue University merged their Indianapolis operations to form Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), prompted by then-Mayor Richard Lugar’s push for a strong urban university to boost education, economic growth, job creation, and graduate retention in Indiana.
As IUPUI, it became Indiana’s premier urban research institution, emphasizing health sciences, research, and community impact, with major assets like the nation’s largest medical school and significant economic contributions.
In 2024, following a 2022 agreement, IUPUI split: IU Indianapolis emerged as a fully independent core IU campus on July 1, 2024, focusing on health sciences, liberal arts, business, law, and more. Its goals include becoming one of the nation’s preeminent urban research universities (achieving R1 status in 2025), driving innovation, workforce development, high-end research, and leading in an innovation-led economy for central Indiana and beyond.
As of fall 2025 (the most recent official census data from September 2025) IU Indy has 20,677 total students enrolled. This reflects growth in its second year as an independent IU campus following the 2024 split from IUPUI, including 2,699 undergraduate beginner (first-year) students, up about 10.7% from the prior year. The student body draws from all 92 Indiana counties, 49 states plus D.C., and 136 countries, with 93% Indiana residents.
For staff and faculty: Specific post-split figures for IU Indianapolis alone are not as prominently detailed in recent public reports, but the campus historically (and currently) employs over 2,500 academic staff/faculty based on legacy IUPUI data and ongoing operations as a major urban research institution.
Broader IU system-wide faculty and staff exceed 21,000, but campus-level breakdowns emphasize IU Indy’s focus on health sciences and research roles. Note that exact employee counts can vary by source and include part-time/instructional roles; for the latest precise numbers, check IU Indianapolis’s institutional research or official fact sheets.
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