As Indiana’s premier urban public research university, IUPUI believes in the power of transformation. We are committed to providing educational opportunities that transform the lives of our students, our community, and the changing world around us.

Read about IUPUI’s commitment to the community in the 2019 community report.

It was this commitment that was behind the merger of the Indianapolis campuses and programs of IUPUI—some of which are more than 100 years old—that won accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission in 1969, creating IUPUI.

And it’s what binds us together today. We’re now Indiana’s premier urban research university offering more than 550 undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs from Indiana University and Purdue University.

Since the spring of 2016, IUPUI has remained committed to the Welcoming Campus Initiative.

This initiative aims to make our campus a more welcoming place for everyone. Through a series of task forces, town halls, and focus groups, we’ve begun to identify ways we can change our campus for the better—and we’re dedicated to finding even more.

We’ve also started to award Welcoming Campus Innovation Grants to projects that help implement the initiative’s recommendations.

In 2019 IUPUI celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding. The year long celebration included special events and programs honoring the past and envisioning the future of the campus.