OpenFieldIUP · Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a comprehensive public doctoral research university founded in 1875 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The largest doctoral-granting institution in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), IUP is celebrated for safety sciences and industrial hygiene, clinical psychology, criminology and criminal justice, nursing, and teacher education.
IUP comprises five academic colleges: the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Eberly College of Business, College of Health and Human Services, College of Arts, Humanities, Media, and Public Affairs, and the College of Education and Communications. The university operates the $90-million John J. and Char Kopchick Hall science complex.
Undergraduate admissions evaluate high school GPA and transcripts with test-optional application pathways. Graduate doctoral and master's admissions require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 2.8–3.0 GPA, personal statement, letters of recommendation, and English proficiency (TOEFL 79+ or IELTS 6.5+). Graduate assistantships provide stipends and partial to full tuition waivers.
The nation's flagship doctoral program in safety sciences, preparing industry leaders and researchers in occupational hazard mitigation, industrial aerosol toxicology, and organizational safety culture.
APA-accredited practitioner-scholar doctoral program recognized for training clinical psychologists in evidence-based rural community mental health, clinical neuropsychology, and child psychological assessment.
Top-tier doctoral program in criminology and criminal justice focusing on statistical modeling of criminal recidivism, community policing evaluation, penal reform, and forensic theory.
Applied mathematics curriculum housed in Kopchick Hall, focusing on numerical optimization, stochastic processes, data analytics in Python and R, and predictive predictive modeling.
CCNE-accredited graduate nursing program preparing nurse educators and clinical administrators to design nursing school curricula, lead clinical simulation centers, and direct hospital nursing staff.
ABET-accredited undergraduate computer science program based in the new John J. and Char Kopchick Hall, featuring modern cybersecurity labs, full-stack software development, and Linux systems programming.
Associate Professor and Safety Sciences Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Safety Sciences
Dr. Wanda Minnick investigates occupational safety and health management systems, ergonomic risk assessment in manufacturing facilities, and industrial worker f...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Dr. John Lewis researches criminal justice sentencing guidelines, juvenile offender behavioral rehabilitation, substance abuse interventions in correctional ins...
View researcher profile ↗Associate Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics
Dr. Sudipta Majumdar conducts biochemical research in enzymology, examining bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms, protein-ligand binding kinetics, and met...
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