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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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Purdue University
Purdue University, founded in 1869 as a land-grant institution, has built one of the top engineering programs in the country, and the university counts more astronauts among its alumni than any other public university except the US service academies, a distinction closely tied to its long institutional emphasis on aerospace engineering. Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon, are both Purdue engineering graduates, a bookend fact the university actively promotes as reflecting its sustained, decades-long strength in producing aerospace engineers and astronauts. Purdue's decision to freeze undergraduate tuition at its 2012 rate for more than a decade afterward, under then-president and former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, made it one of the most heavily discussed examples nationally of a major public research university deliberately prioritizing tuition affordability over revenue growth. The university's West Lafayette campus and its continued strength across engineering, agriculture, and veterinary medicine reflect Purdue's land-grant founding mission, and its combination of nationally elite engineering programs and unusually disciplined tuition policy has made it one of the most consistently strong values in American public higher education.
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