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Butler University
Butler University, founded in 1855, built significant national name recognition through its men's basketball program's back-to-back runs to the NCAA championship game in 2010 and 2011, an improbable achievement for a mid-sized private university competing against programs from much larger conferences with far greater athletic budgets. The university's Jordan College of Fine Arts and its pharmacy and health sciences programs have each built solid regional reputations, and Butler's small size, around 4,500 undergraduates, lets it maintain smaller class sizes than most larger public universities in the state. Butler's Indianapolis campus location gives students direct access to the city's business, healthcare, and sports industries, and the university's "Butler Way," an institutional phrase describing a deliberate emphasis on humility, teamwork, and thoughtful preparation, became closely associated with the culture head coach Brad Stevens built around the program's surprising basketball success. The university's combination of a genuinely competitive Division I basketball program at a relatively small private university, alongside strong pharmacy and business programs, has made Butler a distinctive choice among Indiana's private universities, gaining broader national name recognition than its size would otherwise suggest.
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DePauw University
DePauw University, founded in 1837, has built one of the strongest reputations among Midwestern liberal arts colleges for its media and journalism-adjacent programs, and its Eugene S. Pulliam School of Communication has produced a notably high number of prominent broadcast journalists relative to the college's small size. The university's Greek life participation rate is among the highest of any American liberal arts college, with a substantial majority of students belonging to a fraternity or sorority, giving DePauw's social culture a distinctly different character from many peer liberal arts colleges where Greek life plays a smaller role. DePauw's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the Midwest, funding substantial merit and need-based financial aid, and the university's small size, around 1,700 undergraduates, lets it maintain close faculty engagement typical of elite liberal arts colleges. The university's Greencastle, Indiana campus and its combination of strong media and communications programs with a prominent Greek social culture have made DePauw a distinctive choice among Indiana's private liberal arts colleges, appealing particularly to students specifically interested in broadcast journalism or communications careers.
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