Indiana State University

The Indiana state university was founded in 1865 and is located on the western edge of Terre Haute. Almost 80% of the university’s students are natives of Indiana. Students have the option of choosing their careers from more than 100 majors in numerous career oriented fields like criminology, education, business, nursing and communications. The average student/faculty ratio is 18 to 1 and the usual class size is of 33 students per class. In recent years the university has shown an strong bias towards technology and all those students who have a 3.0 high school GPA and have completed all their core courses are given a laptop by the Indiana state university. The university enjoyed an overall enrollments in recent years of almost 11,528 students, 9,449 of which are undergraduates. Out of these 47 percent are male and 53 percent are female students.

The cost of attending the Indiana state university is about $19,838 (in-state); $29,062 (out-of-state). However, students who have their hearts set on attending Indiana state university can make use of the university’s generous financial aid program.

Indiana University in Bloomington is the Indiana state university’s flagship campus and is highly acclaimed for its well maintained campus, academic programs and high tech computing infrastructure.

The Indiana State University not only offers state of the art education to student’s on-campus but it has a very well evolved distance learning program as well. Through this program student’s who cannot afford to attend classes on campus can easily enroll in online classes and pursue degree programs in whichever field of education they choose. The lectures and coursework are conducted online and available for the student’s benefit 24/7. To ensure that the distance education program is in line with all the benefits and standards of on-campus education, the university has accreditation for all its online degree programs. Each program is accredited by its proper and local authority and offers real quality to students. Accreditation of online degree programs is not only necessary because it represents quality education, but also because students of unaccredited programs do not qualify for federal student aid and their credits are not acceptable by other academic institutes, in case they want to transfer to other universities. Institutional accreditation for the online degree programs in not only conferred by the HLC, but by other specialized agencies, discipline-based organizations and professional associations as well.

The university and all its degree programs are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association. This is to ensure that all students who enroll in the Indiana state university are getting quality education and their degrees will be well recognized by other educational institutes and future employers all over the world. This accreditation also helps students in getting their credits transferred from ISU to other colleges and universities, including graduate schools.