A highly personalized education
An IUP education is an intensely personalized intellectual journey that not only allows you to explore your field of study in depth but also enables you to go beyond disciplinary boundaries and geographical borders to build a broad foundation of knowledge for the future. IUP offers roughly 120 high-quality undergraduate degree programs in fields ranging from education, business, and music to nursing, criminology, and nuclear medicine technology. The Robert E. Cook Honors College, featured in Donald Asher’s Cool Colleges: For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different, is the only one of its kind in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Applying your IUP education in the real world
In addition to rigorous, research-based, theoretical learning, IUP undergraduates also learn by taking advantage of a variety of experiential opportunities. These include research collaborations with faculty members on projects of real-world importance; they also include prestigious internships at home and beyond, from the New York Stock Exchange to the European Parliament. Further, IUP’s global partnerships also allow students to benefit from a range of invaluable study-abroad opportunities.
Successful results
IUP students don’t just graduate to rewarding careers and become highly sought-after employees. They also become ethical and service-minded leaders of distinction within the workplace, within their communities, and beyond. Currently, IUP alumni, who live and work in every state and more than seventy-seven countries, include university presidents and state system chancellors, chief executives of leading companies and industries, playwrights and authors, and professional athletes.
The faculty I have taken classes from, especially within my major, are some of the most brilliant people I have ever known. I have learned more from them than I could have imagined four years ago. I have also had the opportunity to work for the university as a student employee in different roles—I like to think of it as an opportunity not many students find, a four-year internship. Both academics and my employment at IUP have had such a positive impact on my college experience that I have been able to exceed every single one of my goals.
—Jamie Berryhill, Political Science