BLOOMINGTON — For the fourth year in a row, Indiana University set an enrollment record for the Bloomington campus, the university announced in a news release.
48,424 total students enrolled for the fall semester, with the campus’s second-largest beginning class ever at 9,600. In 2023, 47,527 students called IU Bloomington home.
Across the state, IU welcomed 24,489 new undergraduate and graduate students between all nine campuses, with nearly 90,000 total students enrolled at the university, an increase of 2% from last year.
“Our continued strong enrollment shows the value and impact of an IU degree in the eyes of students and employers,” IU President Pamela Whitten said. “We are proud of our commitment to affordability and creating a student experience that equips students for resounding success in the workplace and beyond.”
According to IU, there is a student to represent all 92 Indiana counties, all 50 states and 166 countries. The number of underrepresented students of color also set a new record with an increase of 7.4% from last year.
For Bloomington specifically, applications were up 25% from last year, marking enrollment growth of 24% over the past decade, the university said.
5,231 undergraduate students are from Indiana, with 38% of new students achieving a 4.0 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale in high school. 88 valedictorians make up this year’s incoming class, and 29% of new enrollees graduated in the top 10% of their high school class.
