For more than two decades, the IU 21st Century Scholars Program has been committed to preparing all students for lifelong success. With the establishment of the IU 21st Century Scholarship Covenant, there are even more reasons to make Indiana University Bloomington your destination for a bachelor's degree.
CLASS OF 2022 ENROLLMENT
674TOTAL FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR SCHOLARS AT IUB
54%STUDENT OF COLOR
3.73MEDIAN HIGH SCHOOL CUMULATIVE GPA
100%INDIANA RESIDENTS
* Our Class of 2021 scholars came from 283 cities/towns across the state of Indiana (see above).
* The top five cities our 21st Century Scholars permanently reside (i.e., hometown) are: 1) Indianapolis, 2) Fort Wayne, 3) Bloomington, 4) South Bend, and 5) Fishers.
UNIVERSITY PROGRAM-LEVEL DATA
2,6032018-2019 IUB TOTAL SCHOLARS ENROLLED
90%SCHOLARS RETURN BACK TO IUB AFTER FIRST-YEAR, FULL-TIME ENROLLMENT
60%ARE IDENTIFIED AS FEMALE SCHOLARS AT IUB
47%ARE FIRST-GENERATION SCHOLARS AT IUB
$30.5 millionSCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO 3,101 SCHOLARS DURING 2017-2018 ACADEMIC YEAR AT IUB
2,2562017-2018 IUB TOTAL SCHOLARS RECEIVED FEDERAL PELL GRANT
* The top five majors our 21st Century Scholars pursue at Indiana University Bloomington are: 1) Biology, 2) Nursing, 3) Management/Marketing, 4) Psychology, and 5) Social Work. IU 21st Century Scholars are enrolled in every school/department, working on degrees in virtually every major offered.
* The top five colleges our 21st Century Scholars pursue at Indiana University Bloomington are: 1) College of Arts & Sciences, 2) Kelley School of Business, 3) School of Public Health, 4) School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), and 5) School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.
* The 21st Century Scholars Program at Indiana University Bloomington have sent the largest number of scholars abroad to receive an IU OVPDEI summer study abroad scholarship through the IU OVPDEI Overseas Studies and Scholarship Program. In 2017, our department boasted the highest number of scholars total (24 out of 35 recipients) within IU OVPDEI programs to study abroad in Brazil and India.
* More than 500 scholars graduated from Indiana University Bloomington on Saturday, May 6, 2017. The Class of 2017 represented the largest graduating class since the program's founding in 1990.
2017-2018 ETHNICITY OF ALL SCHOLARS AT IUB
61.1%WHITE/CAUCASIAN
9.5%HISPANIC/LATINO
6.0%Multiracial Americans
19.3%BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICAN
3.6%ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER
0.1%American Indian/Alaska Native
INDIANA 21ST CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM DATA
~ 10,000SCHOLARS HAVE EARNED A COLLEGE DEGREE AT IUB
1.4TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE THE FIRST IN THEIR FAMILY TO GO TO COLLEGE
2.5TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE RAISED BY SINGLE PARENTS
2862017-2018 IUB TOTAL SCHOLARS WHO ARE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER
* The 21st Century Scholars Program at Indiana University Bloomington is the only institution in the state of Indiana to offer the "21st Century Scholarship Covenant" to help scholars pay for housing, textbooks, and meal plans.
* Several journal articles and policy briefs have highlighted the success of the 21st Century Scholars Program at Indiana University Bloomington including The Review of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education, IUI School of Education, University of Michigan School of Education, Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, postsecondary analytics Lumina Foundation.
The IU 21st Century Scholars Program within the IU Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (OVPDEI) has been recognized nationally for our outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. Below are a few recognitions our department and OVPDEI have received at Indiana University Bloomington:
