At Ball State University, we're redefining education by providing high-caliber students with nationally recognized academic programs; opportunities to collaborate with expert, energized faculty; intense, immersion learning experiences; access to exceptional technology; and a vibrant, supportive university environment.

We're using a second $20 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to advance digital technology educational and research initiatives as it creates a new educational model that facilitates collaborative, interdisciplinary projects across Ball State's campus and around the world.

A state-assisted doctoral institution, Ball State University is located in Muncie, Indiana, a mid-sized classically Midwestern city one hour northeast of Indianapolis and just a few hours from Chicago, Cincinnati, and Louisville.

Our dynamic, residential campus—ranked as the nation's number one wireless campus in a 2005 Intel survey—is home to more than 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students from across the country and abroad, who benefit from an average class size of 31 students and a student-to-faculty ratio of 16.9 to 1.

The fact that 93 percent of classes are taught by professors, rather than graduate students, reflects Ball State's proud tradition of teaching excellence, which dates back to 1918. Our teacher-scholar model successfully integrates extraordinary teaching with significant research and rewarding professional development opportunities.

Ranked a doctoral/research-intensive institution by the Carnegie Foundation, Ball State University has 903 full-time faculty members. More than 91 percent of all tenured and tenure-track faculty members hold terminal degrees in their disciplines, and many have years of notable professional experience in the areas they teach.

Degree offerings include 172 baccalaureate, 85 masters, 14 doctoral, 14 associate, and three specialist programs in seven academic colleges. Exceptionally well-qualified students may enroll in the university's Honors College.

By matching our expertise and resources to the unique needs of Hoosier communities through the university's Building Better Communities initiative, Ball State faculty and students are creating economic opportunities and advancing the quality of life in Indiana.

For more details, please go to www.bsu.edu/factbook.

Ball State practices equal opportunity in education and employment and is strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community.