Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne - Academics

Academics

Either Purdue or IU awards IPFW’s degrees on a program-by-program basis. IPFW's colleges, schools, and divisions are not each identified specifically as IU units or as Purdue units. Through an agreement between the IU and Purdue trustees, most of IPFW’s university services are administratively operated through Purdue’s processes. This is in contrast to IPFW's sibling university, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, where IUPUI is a core campus of the Indiana University system, where IUPUI's university services are administratively operated through the Indiana University system, and where IUPUI's schools and academic divisions are each strongly identified by name as IU or Purdue aligned. For those students intending to receive their diploma at another campus of the Indiana University System or Purdue University System, these students may fulfill their freshman, sophomore, or even junior courses at IPFW before transferring to another campus elsewhere in the system to complete their degrees in majors not offered at IPFW. For instance, aeronautical and astronautical engineering is not an offering at IPFW, but many mechanical engineering courses apply through the sophomore year. In recent years, more students have opted to complete their degrees on the Fort Wayne campus.