Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

It’s the best university in the state! I love it and love everything about it except the parking, it’s harder than parking at the Lucas Oil Stadium especially in the morning time.

IUPUI is a clean and bright place. We didn’t find school visitor center to understand more about the history of the school. My dentist was graduated from IUPUI. That’s the reason we came to take a look of IUPUI when we visited Indianapolis.

Sheez. I can write a review for this place, too. Without being overly detailed, I have first-​hand experience, albeit limited. Moreover, it will be a good review.
IUPUI was conceived roughly around 1969 as a joint campus bridging the different worlds that are Indiana’s 2 Big 10 universities of Purdue and Indiana, aka IU, and bringing their niche areas to a new downtown campus in Indianapolis’s core, south or west of the capitol and the CBD.
It fuses the technical and vocational areas from Purdue and the liberal arts and business disciplines from Indiana. The campus also has the Herron School of Art and there are numerous graduate programs, often offered in the evenings, and the health science professions are offered here as well, being that the teaching hospital and clinics are right there, to the west of the main campus. This means that there is a lot of diversity among its enrolled students, because the tech-​y critical mass of Purdue and liberal arts critical mass of IU are diluted such that people are enrolled in a wider spread of majors. Then, there’s the added diversity of it being a downtown commuter school, meaning that students won’t be of the cookie cutter college brat variety. Also, throw in adults picking up degrees after work, or during the day, and it becomes even more diverse.
The IUPUI campus is typical 70s modern, with more daring buildings built as time has gone on. While it’s not strikingly beautiful, it is comfortable and not foreboding. Reportedly, daytime downtown parking is challenging, but less so for evening courses.
For some, this won’t be the right campus for them. It’s a place you go to as a self-​motivated student who may work, be on the 5 or 6 year plan, or craft a major they want without being pulled by the implied tide of expectations of a Purdue or an IU. I’ve only driven through Purdue and West Lafayette, and it was not a particularly attractive place. As for IU in Bloomington, everyone fawns over it as being something storybook like. The only parts of IU that are photo worthy are the Student Union and the brook with a stone bridge in front of it, the entrance gate near the administrative building, and the wedge shaped Museum of Art. Everything else there is either a soul sucking institutional limestone building or a dank collegiate Gothic building the likes of one where bad kids were sent in England in the olden days. However, the IUPUI student will enjoy the more adult-​like vibe of having high rises as a backdrop, fellow students from all walks of life, professors they will know, an apparent lack of having to conform to a list of Big 10 «shoulds» and traditions, and a choice of many practical and interesting majors.
It gets 4 stars, as does UCLA in my book, but not because it’s anything like UCLA. Not in the least bit. Instead, IUPUI gets 4 stars for how it stacks up within its own context and mission, and for being a very commonsensical way to get a college education, particularly for in-​state students.

This is where you will find MJ W all the time! Why? I work here and go to school here! IUPUI is great because it offers both Indiana University and Purdue University degrees. IUPUI is where impact is made!

Great urban university with the best of Purdue and Indiana Universities combined into one downtown stop. I am getting my MPA here and I love the professors and the students. Everyone is friendly and willing to help out. The only downside would be parking unless it’s in the evening! Professors are also respectful of those working full time and it’s a great place to wander around and see all the public art!

What can you say, it’s IUPUI? It’s a great urban campus with some excellent scenery, a very diverse student population, and plenty of educational opportunities. My only bitch is the same as anyone else who has ever taken classes at a commuter campus; parking is a TURD. A huge one… and it sucks trying to find parking until about 3pm. If you can, take evening classes to avoid the nonsense!

As I enter my last semester here at IUPUI, I feel I am well qualified to review this school. It’s taken over $ 25,000 of my money so I’m certainly a customer, and education is a commodity, bought and paid for. That being said…
Overall I have had a good experience here at IUPUI. First and foremost it is a COMMUTER SCHOOL so if you are looking for a traditional college experience here, you have to seek it out and find it. It’s there, I mean, they have dorms, a first year experience program, and even a food court that’s open, like, half the hours in the week. But there’s lots of clubs and activities, a growing Greek Life scene, a very active student government, and most importantly about every single major on earth.
And if you’re a working adult, your primary concerns are flexibility and convenience, and IUPUI has that too. I have been able to schedule most classes I need during both the day and night, and even on Saturdays and online. Maybe not every semester, exactly the way I wanted, but eventually it has all worked out. I have found awesome friends and gotten a quality education. Almost all of my classes, even my undergrad general ed ones, were taught by (mostly) full professors, not grad students like at IU or Purdue, which is really nice. I feel like the work was rigorous and challenging, especially in my majors.
One of the major challenges for every urban university is parking, and IUPUI is no different. That’s why I think it’s so cool they have added a major shuttle component and discounted off-​campus parking on Indiana Avenue and Busch Stadium. It has reduced congestion on campus considerably and the shuttles run quite often during the day.
IUPUI certainly has room for improvement but overall I would recommend it, especially for someone not looking for a party school or a traditional campus, but someone who is serious and focused and wants/​needs to work during school.