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Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington, founded in 1820, is the flagship of the Indiana University system, and its Jacobs School of Music is consistently ranked among the very best music conservatories in the country, an unusual strength for a large public research university rather than a dedicated conservatory. The Kelley School of Business is one of the top-ranked undergraduate business programs at any public university in the country, and IU's informatics and computer science programs, built on the university's early leadership in database and information systems research, have grown into some of the strongest in the Midwest. IU's limestone-heavy campus architecture, built using stone quarried from the surrounding southern Indiana region, gives the Bloomington campus a distinctive, uniform aesthetic that's frequently cited among the most attractive public university campuses in the country. The university's combination of a genuinely elite music school, a top-ranked undergraduate business program, and a scenic, self-contained college-town setting in Bloomington has made IU a consistent draw for students seeking a comprehensive public research university experience with unusual specific strength in music alongside its broader academic offerings.
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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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