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IUPUI Campus Center

Buildings and structures completed in 2008Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Northeastern facade of IUPUI Campus Center, 2023.
Northeastern facade of IUPUI Campus Center, 2023.

The IUPUI Campus Center functions as the on-campus hub of student activities with areas for social activities, dining, and essential administrative offices for academic life. The center marks the completion of the vision for a dedicated student building on the Indianapolis campus beginning in with the creation of IUPUI in 1969. Surrogates for the building have included Robert E. Cavanaugh Hall, Joseph T. Taylor Hall, and the IU Student Union Building.

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IUPUI Campus Center
University Boulevard, Indianapolis

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Indiana University-Purdue University of Indinapolis

University Boulevard 420
46202 Indianapolis
Indiana, United States
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Northeastern facade of IUPUI Campus Center, 2023.
Northeastern facade of IUPUI Campus Center, 2023.
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Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, commonly referred to as IUPUI, is a public research university in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a collaboration between Indiana University and Purdue University that offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees from both universities. Administered primarily through Indiana University as a core campus and secondarily through Purdue University as a regional campus, it is Indiana's primary urban research and academic health sciences institution. IUPUI is located in downtown Indianapolis along the White River and Fall Creek. Among more than 550 degree programs, the urban university hosts the primary campuses for both the Indiana University School of Medicine, with more than 2,000 students, and the Indiana University School of Dentistry, the only dental school in the state. Also the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law is one of the two Indiana University law schools. After excluding the research budget of the IU School of Medicine, IUPUI is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity." The IUPUI Jaguars compete in the NCAA's Division I in the Horizon League. Several athletics venues are located on the campus, including the IU Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium and Indiana University Natatorium, the largest indoor pool in the United States with a seating capacity of 4,700. On August 12, 2022, the boards of trustees of both Purdue and IU announced that IUPUI will split into two separate universities, with completion of the split to be finished by the fall 2024 semester.

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