The Campus and Facilities

The campus is located on U.S. Highway 40, approximately two miles east of Terre Haute. The 200-acre site is one of natural beauty, with two lakes, rolling, wooded hills and meadows and provides an excellent environment for educational and co-curricular activities. Buildings are designed and to blend with the natural setting.

Moench Hall, Olin Hall, Crapo Hall, and the Myers Center house laboratories, classrooms, and offices for nearly all of the academic departments. Some laboratory courses are taught in the Rotz Engine Laboratory. The lower level of Crapo Hall houses the Waters Computer Center which is equipped with a time-sharing mainframe computer system and an extensive array of networked computer workstations. The President's Office and the administrative Offices for Academic Affairs are located in Hadley Hall. The Student Affairs Office, including the Financial Aid Office, is housed in the Hulman Student Union.

The John A. Logan Library contains over 50,000 volumes. Its atmosphere is enhanced by the Tri Kappa Collection of Indiana artists' works, which hang on the second and third floors. The Computer Science Department and the Learning Center are housed in the lower level of the building.

The Grace and Anton Hulman Memorial Union, which overlooks the larger campus lake, features a glass-enclosed dining room which seats 500 persons, the food service, private dining rooms, snack bar, bookstore, formal lounge and game room. The east wing of the building is dedicated to Chauncey Rose. Memorabilia associated with the school's founder and a 115-piece 19th Century British watercolor collection are on display in this wing. The offices of student life, the campus bookstore, the medical services offices, and student counseling services are all located on the ground floor of the Union building.

The center of the varsity and intramural athletics and recreation is the Rose-Hulman Sports and Recreation Center. This facility was completed in 1997 and contains the Institute's competition gymnasium, the Samuel F. Hulbert Arena, as well as the swimming pool, fieldhouse, fitness facilities, locker rooms, intramural and practice facilities, and Athletic Department offices.

Eight residence halls provide on-campus housing for 900 students. These buildings include Deming, Baur-Sames-Bogart, and Speed, Mees, Scharpenberg, Blumberg halls and a new residence hall which opened in November 1999.

Accreditation

Degree programs in chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Rose-Hulman is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Indiana. The chemistry curriculum has been approved by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society.

In addition to institutional membership in the American Society of Engineering Education, the Institute also is a member of the Association of Independent Technological Universities, a group formed to further the interests of private engineering schools.