Indiana University Kokomo
Encyclopedia
Indiana University Kokomo is a regional campus in the Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
system in Kokomo, Indiana
Kokomo, Indiana
Kokomo is a city in and the county seat of Howard County, Indiana, United States, Indiana's 13th largest city. It is the principal city of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Howard and Tipton counties....
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Academics
As of 2010, there were over 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students at IU Kokomo and 81 full-time faculty. The university serves a 14-county region in north central Indiana, and offers more than 70 Indiana University degrees, including bachelor's degrees in many arts and sciences disciplines, informatics, medical imaging technology, criminal justice, nursing, business, education, and general studies; and master's degrees in public management, business, education, nursing, and liberal studies; and a limited number of associate degree programs.IU Kokomo has a low 15 to 1 student-faculty ratio and the lowest tuition of any four-year public institution in Indiana.
IU Kokomo is organized into the following schools, colleges, departments, and divisions:
- Division of Allied Health Sciences
- Division of Continuing Studies
- Division of Labor Studies
- School of Education
- School of Arts and Sciences
- Department of Humanities
- Department of Science, Mathematics, and Informatics
- Department of Sociology, History, and Political Science
- Department of Psychology
- School of Business
- School of Nursing
- School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Special Programs
- Honors Program
- Internships
- Study Abroad (most notably, nursing programs to Korea and Central America and the Innovation Symposium whose students travel to Great Britain)
- IU Seek
- student publications The Correspondent and From the Well House
Campus Life
IU Kokomo offers a variety of campus activities and resources to its students. New outdoor basketball and volleyball courts were completed in the fall of 2010 and in the spring of 2011 coaches were hired to head men's basketball and women's volleyball teams that will start competing in the fall of 2011 and plan to compete on the NAIA level. Campus events are highlighted by the annual Take Back the Night/Angel Walk rally every spring, regular student and faculty exhibitions at the IUK Art Gallery, open forums on current international events, and the annual IUK Symposium of Student Research.History
Indiana University Kokomo was formed when Indiana University acquired, during 1945, the former Kokomo Junior College. Kokomo Junior College was formed in 1932 by John and George Beauchamp.The original campus was on Sycamore Street. In 1967 students raised money to have the Well House moved from the original campus location to the current campus.