Indiana University–Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana, founded in 1820 and the flagship of the Indiana University system. The wooded campus of about 1,900 acres is a residential college town in southern Indiana. IU is a comprehensive arts-and-sciences university with large professional schools in business, music, law and public affairs; the system's medical school is based in Indianapolis, not Bloomington.

Units that matter for graduate study include the College of Arts and Sciences, Kelley School of Business, Maurer School of Law, Jacobs School of Music, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, the School of Education, the Media School, and the School of Public Health. The Jacobs School's performance facilities and Kelley's graduate business programs draw large taught-master's cohorts.

Bloomington enrolls about 45,000 students, including roughly 10,000 graduate and professional students and an international population of several thousand. Faculty include Elinor Ostrom, who received the Nobel Prize in economics while at IU. Alumni include jazz composer Hoagy Carmichael, violinist Joshua Bell, and entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

Degrees include MA, MS, MBA, MPA, MM, JD, PhD and doctorates in music and education. Music and business programs are taught and performance- or project-based; arts and sciences PhDs combine coursework, qualifying exams and a dissertation. The calendar is semester-based. Associate instructorships and fellowships are the usual doctoral funding. Bloomington is a small city organized around the campus and its performance halls.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Indiana University–Bloomington lists 287 graduate programs across 41 subjects: 144 master's programs and 119 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, music and public health. Indiana University–Bloomington holds rank 126 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.