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Best Colleges in Indiana

Top Indiana colleges ranked by what actually matters after graduation: earnings, completion rates, and what you actually pay. Federal data. No surveys, no sponsorships.

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How We Rank Indiana Colleges

Rankings use a composite score from federal data: graduate earnings (28%), graduation rate (25%), social mobility via Pell Grant share (20%), debt burden (15%), and net cost for low-income students (12%). Where a school has not reported one of these, that component is dropped and the remaining weights are rescaled rather than filled in with an estimate. Two adjustments apply: the earnings component is reduced by 13% for schools where graduate students are more than 20% of enrollment and by 25% where they are more than 30%, and a school with no net price on file for families earning up to $30,000 is scored on its overall average net price instead. Only 4-year non-profit schools with sufficient data qualify.

→Earnings: Median annual earnings 10 years after enrollment. Source: College Scorecard.
→Graduation rate: Full-time first-time students completing within 150% of normal time. Source: IPEDS.
→Net price: Average annual cost after all grants and scholarships. Source: IPEDS.
→Social mobility: Share of students receiving Pell Grants, a direct measure of access for low-income students. Source: IPEDS.
→Debt burden: Median federal loan debt at graduation. Source: College Scorecard.

Top 10 Colleges in Indiana (2026)

Ranked by composite: earnings, graduation rate, social mobility, debt, affordability.

#	School	Accept	Net Price/yr	Grad Rate	Earnings (10yr)
1	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	11.3%	$29,300	95%	$99,980
2	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	49.9%	$13,722	83%	$72,424
3	Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN	78.2%	$17,270	80%	$63,742
4	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN	76.9%	$45,406	78%	$101,253
5	Oakland City University Oakland City, IN	82.5%	$16,437	66%	$43,283
6	Indiana University-Kokomo Kokomo, IN	86.5%	$3,880	46%	$49,917
7	Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN	76.4%	$12,228	54%	$55,198
8	Goshen College Goshen, IN	84.1%	$16,693	65%	$51,943
9	University of Saint Francis-Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, IN	96%	$18,654	55%	$55,362
10	Ball State University Muncie, IN	85.5%	$13,599	62%	$51,833

43 Indiana schools in dataset. Top 10 shown. Data: IPEDS + College Scorecard. Updated annually.

All 43 Colleges in the Dataset

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