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Facts about IU Bloomington

• Of IU's eight campuses, Bloomington is the largest and only residential campus, with over 29,000 undergraduate students and over 7,000 graduate and professional students enrolled.

• The students in Bloomington come from throughout Indiana, all 50 states and 130 foreign countries.

• IU Bloomington appoints over 5,000 full-time and part-time individuals.

• Famous former IUB students include actors Kevin Kline and Charles Kimbrough, broadcaster Jane Pauley, physicist James Watson, novelist Theodore Dreiser, composer Hoagy Carmichael, statesman Wendell Willkie, singer Janie Fricke, violinist Joshua Bell, athletes Mark Spitz and Isaiah Thomas, lyricist Howard Ashman, enigmatologist Will Shortz (editor of the New York Times' crossword puzzle), and Senator Evan Bayh.

• The rolling, forested Bloomington campus with its many Indiana limestone buildings has been judged one of the five most beautiful in the U.S. (Thomas A. Gaines, The Campus as a Work of Art); it covers nearly 1,900 acres.

• Yahoo! Internet Life magazine included IUB on its list of the 10 "most wired" colleges and a national news magazine recognized Indiana University as one of America's 12 "hottest colleges."