Bloomington is a wonderful place to live and learn! The 1,850 acre campus lies in scenic, rolling, heavily wooded terrain in southern Indiana, 50 miles south of Indianapolis. The hilly, wooded acres of the campus are traversed by a small stream, the Jordan River. Most of the university buildings are constructed from native limestone from nearby quarries.

The campus is the original home of the movie "Breaking Away" and the famous Little 500 bike race. Bloomington and its surrounding area offer outstanding cultural and recreational opportunities for students and their families. The University's world-famous School of Music provides an annual calendar of events which includes opera, chamber groups, ensembles, several orchestras, while the Union Board promotes many pop concerts. The University Theater offers year-round productions. The University Museum of Art exhibits paintings, sculptures, and other art objects and schedules frequent displays of visiting art collections.

The Indiana University athletic teams are part of the Big Ten Conference and provide a wide variety of spectator sports including soccer, swimming and diving, basketball, track, football, gymnastics and wrestling. All of the recreational sports facilities of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation are available for student use. Outdoor recreational facilities are abundant in the three nearby state parks, two nearby state forests and one large national forest of 180,000 acres. Lake Monroe, 5 miles south of Bloomington, is the largest in the State of Indiana and along with other small lakes, provides opportunities for canoeing, sailing, water-skiing and fishing. Two winter ski resorts are nearby. Several large commercial caves are located in the area and numerous non-commercial limestone caves are explored annually by student and faculty spelunkers.