INDIANAPOLIS - Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University have partnered to offer expanded transfer of credit opportunities for students throughout Indiana.

The two institutions have recently signed additional agreements, bringing the total number of degree programs that will transfer from all Ivy Tech campuses to Purdue University to eight. This collaboration allows students to complete an associate degree at any Ivy Tech Community College campus and transfer to Purdue University-West Lafayette for the completion of a bachelor's degree.

With the new agreement, Purdue will accept seven concentrations from Ivy Tech liberal arts degrees to include history and philosophy (from Humanities), Spanish and French (from Foreign Languages), sociology and political science (from Social and Behavioral Sciences), and English (from English and Communications). Nursing and manufacturing and industrial technology will transfer towards the completion of bachelor's degrees in the same areas of study at Purdue. Additionally, Ivy Tech's associate of science in education will transfer to Purdue's industrial technology with education option and agriculture with education option programs. An associate of science in business administration will transfer into Purdue's School of Technology organizational leadership and supervision program.

This announcement comes following a similar announcement in May between Indiana University and Ivy Tech Community College. The two institutions designed more than 100 courses that transfer from all 23 Ivy Tech campuses to Indiana University-Bloomington. In addition to the more than 100 courses, the two schools signed formal agreements to transition Ivy Tech two-year degrees to IU four-year degrees at campuses throughout the state. They include ten concentrations from all six Ivy Tech liberal arts degrees along with degrees in nursing and criminal justice.

Purdue University is the state's third largest post-secondary institution. It is a public, doctoral-granting research university, and Indiana's land-, sea-, and space-grant university. The West Lafayette campus currently offers 7,400 courses in more than 500 undergraduate majors and specializations in the schools/colleges of Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Liberal Arts, Management, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Science, Technology and Veterinary Medicine. Programs of graduate study and research leading to advanced degrees fall under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School.

Ivy Tech Community College is one of the nation's largest statewide community college systems and the state's second largest public post-secondary institution with more than 110,000 students enrolled annually. Ivy Tech has 23 campuses throughout Indiana. It serves as the state's engine of workforce development, offering affordable degree programs and training that are aligned with the needs of its community along with courses and programs that transfer to other colleges and universities in Indiana. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.