Indiana Normal School

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Type	Public, Coed
Established	1875
Endowment	US $47 million
President	Michael Driscoll
Provost	Timothy S. Moerland
Academic staff	700 (Fall 2009)
Students	12,853
Undergraduates	10,618
Postgraduates	2,235
Location	Indiana, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Campus	Rural (Small town), 350 acres (1.4 km2)
Colors	Crimson and Slate
Nickname	Crimson Hawks
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division II – PSAC (West)
Mascot	Norm
Website	www.iup.edu

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a public research university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is one of the two largest universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and thus the commonwealth's fourth or fifth largest public university. As of fall 2016, the university enrolled 10,618 undergraduates and 2,235 postgraduates for a total enrollment of 12,853 students. The university is 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Pittsburgh. It is governed by a local Council of Trustees and the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. IUP has branch campuses at Punxsutawney, Northpointe, and Monroeville.

IUP is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). A research-intensive institution, the university has been included in the 2013 list of "Best Northeastern" schools by The Princeton Review, and IUP's Eberly College of Business was included in the list of "Best Business Schools" in the Northeast.

IUP was conceived as Indiana Normal School, first chartered in 1871 by Indiana County investors. The school was created under the Normal School Act, which passed the Pennsylvania General Assembly on May 20, 1875. Normal schools established under the act were to be private corporations in no way dependent upon the state treasury. They were to be "state" normal schools only in the sense of being officially recognized by the commonwealth.

The school opened its doors in 1875 following the mold of the French Ecole Normale. It enrolled just 225 students. All normal school events were held within a single building which also contained a laboratory school for model teaching. Control and ownership of the institution passed to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1920. In 1927, by authority of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, it became State Teachers College at Indiana, with the right to grant degrees. As its mission expanded, the name was changed again in 1959 to Indiana State College. In 1965, the institution achieved university status and became Indiana University of Pennsylvania, or IUP.