Make the most of your university experience. Some of your best memories at IUP will be the ones you make with friends, teachers, classmates, and teammates. You’ll build lifelong ties over the course of your time here. The only prerequisite for this course: Get involved. At IUP, it’s so easy to do.
Student organizations: With more than 220 clubs and organizations, IUP offers options for just about any interest. You can make career connections through professional clubs; help the community through service organizations; contribute to The Penn, IUP’s award-winning campus newspaper; join the animé club; and much more.
Athletics: IUP sponsors nineteen varsity sports, with scholarships available for all of them. Men can choose from eight athletic programs: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, swimming, and indoor and outdoor track and field. And women can choose from eleven: basketball, cross country, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and volleyball. IUP is an NCAA Division II member and competes in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
Intramural sports: So you want to play a sport, but you don’t want to try out for the varsity team. Maybe you want to play a sport that doesn’t have a varsity team. Or maybe you’re in it as much for the socializing as the athletic competition. If that’s the case, IUP’s intramural sports are for you. Try any of twelve sports, including wrestling, flag football, volleyball, water polo, and bench press.
At IUP, you’ll enjoy a university experience that goes well beyond academic learning. And as you get involved, dive in, and reach out, you’ll discover all that you are truly capable of, and all that you can achieve.
- Participating in extracurricular and other student activities has not only given me more opportunities to meet new people and build some amazing friendships, it also has allowed me to network for professional and career purposes.
- - Rebecca Kirsch, History