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Trends by state

Indiana

44 colleges on the site: 12 public, 31 private nonprofit, 1 for-profit. Their undergraduates fell 10% in total since fall 2014, to 186,449 today (40 of 44 Indiana colleges in the panel).

Explore Indiana's colleges

How Indiana's colleges changed

The median Indiana college, fall 2014 to fall 2024, against the national median (dashed) over the same .

Undergraduates

-13%

over 10 years, median college

  • This state
  • National median

Applicants

+47%

over 10 years, median college

  • This state
  • National median

Acceptance rate

+2.0 pts

over 10 years, median college

  • This state
  • National median

Average total cost

-17%

over 10 years, median college

  • This state
  • National median

Public and private

State stories are often public-system stories: a state's publics shrinking while its privates hold, or the reverse.

Public

11 colleges
Undergrads
-27%
Applicants
+38%
Acceptance rate
+3.5 pts
Average cost
-15%

Private nonprofit

29 colleges
Undergrads
-9%
Applicants
+57%
Acceptance rate
+0.6 pts
Average cost
-18%

Where Indiana's first-years come from

Top sending states

  1. Indiana (in-state)64%
  2. IL7%
  3. OH3%
  4. CA3%
  5. MI2%
  6. TX2%
  7. NJ2%
  8. NY2%

Public:

11% → 10% (12 colleges)

Private nonprofit:

30% → 33% (31 colleges)

First-years crossing state lines, fall 2024

Inflow
16,028
Outflow
6,149
Net
+9,879

Indiana's colleges enroll 2.6 first-years from other states for every Indiana resident who starts college in another state, among four-year colleges on this site.

Colleges taking the most of the inflow

  1. Purdue University-Main Campus34%
  2. Indiana University-Bloomington25%
  3. University of Notre Dame11%
  4. Butler University3%
  5. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology2%

One fall, over campus-based colleges only: not that fall, not for-profit, and not a campus that merged or split.

Biggest movers in Indiana

The same as the national lists, restricted to Indiana's colleges.

Applications surged

, fall 2014 to fall 2024

Median college: +27.9% (23 colleges ranked)

  1. 1Purdue University Fort Wayne+125.4%3,386 → 7,631
  2. 2Anderson University+99.6%2,659 → 5,306
  3. 3Purdue University-Main Campus+97.4%39,896 → 78,745
  4. 4Indiana University-Bloomington+86.1%36,362 → 67,658
  5. 5University of Evansville+82.6%2,762 → 5,044
  6. 6Marian University+81.3%2,066 → 3,745
  7. 7University of Notre Dame+67.3%17,901 → 29,942
  8. 8University of Indianapolis+60.3%6,796 → 10,891
  9. 9Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology+38.4%4,404 → 6,097
  10. 10Trine University+38.0%2,890 → 3,988

Sources:IPEDS Admissions survey, Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;College Scorecard (enrollment), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (distance education), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024About the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)

Top 10 and how it's ranked

Grew the most

, fall 2014 to fall 2024

Median college: −12.8% (29 colleges ranked)

  1. 1Purdue University-Main Campus+48.5%29,977 → 44,503
  2. 2Trine University+40.5%1,654 → 2,324
  3. 3Indiana University-Bloomington+17.2%32,252 → 37,806
  4. 4Marian University+13.4%1,999 → 2,266
  5. 5Taylor University+9.2%1,855 → 2,025
  6. 6Huntington University+8.1%1,001 → 1,082
  7. 7Butler University+7.6%4,013 → 4,317
  8. 8University of Notre Dame+4.6%8,427 → 8,818
  9. 9Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology+4.6%2,208 → 2,309

Sources:College Scorecard (enrollment), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (distance education), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024About the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)

Top 9 and how it's ranked

Students pay much less

(in 2023–24 dollars), 2013–14 to 2023–24

Median college: −17.4% (27 colleges ranked)

  1. 1University of Evansville−29.0%$29,727 → $21,119
  2. 2Indiana State University−26.7%$20,377 → $14,940
  3. 3Manchester University−25.8%$27,037 → $20,067
  4. 4Taylor University−22.8%$34,039 → $26,294
  5. 5Valparaiso University−21.0%$31,860 → $25,166
  6. 6Saint Mary's College−20.4%$35,716 → $28,432
  7. 7Trine University−20.1%$34,948 → $27,942
  8. 8Ball State University−19.9%$22,719 → $18,194
  9. 9Hanover College−19.8%$29,774 → $23,889
  10. 10DePauw University−18.9%$39,064 → $31,668

Sources:IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey, 2013–14 to 2023–24;IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey, 2013–14 to 2023–24;College Scorecard (enrollment), Fall 2013 to Fall 2024;inflation: BLS CPI-U, school-year averagesAbout the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)

Top 10 and how it's ranked

Public research universities

Indiana's public R1 and R2 universities (Carnegie 2025), with their undergraduate change over the same window. No classification in the data means "flagship," so this is simply the state's public research universities.

How this was measured

  • Which colleges. Colleges with 300 or more undergraduates in both fall 2014 and fall 2024: 40 of 44 Indiana colleges. It's a , so colleges entering or leaving the data don't look like change.
  • Average total cost is an academic-year figure, one year behind fall: 2013–14 to 2023–24, after inflation.
  • Out-of-state shares are collected in even-numbered falls only; odd years are gaps, not zeros.
  • Totals and medians both appear because they can diverge: a state's total can fall more (or less) than its median college when its biggest colleges move differently.
  • No policy attribution. This page shows what changed, not why; a state's mix of public, private, and for-profit colleges, and its system policies, aren't broken out as causes.
  • First-years crossing state lines is a single snapshot, fall 2024, over campus-based colleges only: colleges that fall, for-profit colleges, and campuses that merged or split are left out. It's the newest fall the site's per-college home-state tables cover, not this page's ten-year window.

Sources:College Scorecard (enrollment), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Admissions survey, Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey, 2014–15 to 2023–24;IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey, 2014–15 to 2023–24;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (part C, residence of first-time students), Fall 2014 to Fall 2024;inflation: BLS CPI-U, school-year averagesAbout the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)