by our College Data Analytics Team
College Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Indiana University - Bloomington was awarded 128 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business, management & marketing.
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IU Bloomington is ranked #30 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 5% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when IU Bloomington held the #55 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
IU Bloomington is also ranked #2 out of 41 schools in Indiana.
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Indiana University - Bloomington has an acceptance rate of 82%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 38% of students accepted to IU Bloomington submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 590 and 690. Math scores were between 590 and 710.
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The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Indiana University - Bloomington, this ratio is 17 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Indiana University - Bloomington is 85%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Indiana University - Bloomington has a freshmen retention rate of 90%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At IU Bloomington the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 69%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 32,986 undergraduates at IU Bloomington with 31,632 being full-time and 1,354 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $6,874 | $7,636 | $12,849 | $21,394 | $24,388 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of IU Bloomington, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At IU Bloomington, approximately 34% of students took out student loans averaging $9,757 a year. That adds up to $39,028 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for IU Bloomington are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 107 South Indiana Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 |
| Phone: | 812-855-4848 |
| Website: | www.indiana.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| General Business/Commerce | 3,205 | $71,100 |
| Public Administration | 612 | $47,013 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 458 | $36,700 |
| Computer Information Systems | 451 | $62,350 |
| Health & Physical Education | 424 | $35,873 |
| Music | 389 | $15,911 |
| Child Development & Psychology | 347 | $31,129 |
| Public Health | 267 | $42,790 |
| General Biology | 226 | $36,500 |
| Computer Science | 201 | $77,909 |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 19,978 students took at least one online class at Indiana University - Bloomington. This is a decrease from the 21,976 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 19,978 | 3,617 |
| 2021-2022 | 21,976 | 3,963 |
| 2020-2021 | 40,071 | 16,304 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,814 | 2,788 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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