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Hunter College

Hunter College: public senior college of CUNY in Manhattan, founded 1869/1870 as the Female Normal and High School, renamed 1914 for Thomas Hunter; first NYC institution offering free public higher education to women; 22,712 students.

Husson University

Husson University, founded 1898 as the Maine School of Commerce, is a private nonprofit university in Bangor, Maine, with about 3,367 students, NECHE accreditation, 22 NCAA Division III teams, and large online degree programs.

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), New York City medical and graduate school of the Mount Sinai Health System; chartered 1963, opened 1968; about $499.4 million NIH funding FY2026, 9th among U.S. medical schools.

IIT Bombay

IIT Bombay (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान मुंबई), also called IITB, is an Indian Institute of Technology in Powai, Mumbai, established 1958 with UNESCO/USSR aid, a 200-hectare residential campus, and national-importance status since 1961.

IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान दिल्ली), founded 1961 at Hauz Khas, is one of India's 23 IITs, an Institution of Eminence, QS 2027 rank 118, with an Abu Dhabi international campus and over 60,000 alumni.

IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), founded 2 November 1959, is a first-generation IIT in Uttar Pradesh shaped by the US-led Kanpur Indo-American Program; it pioneered the semester system, letter grading, and computer science education in India.

IIT Kharagpur (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान खड़गपुर)

IIT Kharagpur (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान खड़गपुर) is India's first Indian Institute of Technology, founded 1950 at the Hijli Detention Camp site in West Bengal, inaugurated 18 August 1951, made an institution of national importance by the 1956 Act.

IIT Madras

IIT Madras (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Chennai institute of national importance founded 1959 with West German aid; NIRF #1 overall 2019–2025, 630-acre campus, 16 departments, major incubation and patent output.

IIT Roorkee (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रुड़की)

IIT Roorkee (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रुड़की) is a public technical university in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, that became the nation's seventh IIT on September 21, 2001.

Illinois Institute of Technology

Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), a private Ph.D.-granting technology university in Chicago formed in 1940 by merging Armour Institute (1890) and Lewis Institute; Mies van der Rohe designed its campus; HLC accredited, with a 2026 Financial Issue designation.

Illinois State University

Illinois State University, founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, is a public university in Normal, Illinois, the oldest public university in Illinois and a leading preparer of teachers.

IMD Business School

IMD Business School (International Institute for Management Development) is an independent Swiss business school in Lausanne, formed in 1990 by merging IMI and IMEDE, known for its one-year MBA, executive education, and World Competitiveness Ranking.

IMI Kolkata

IMI Kolkata (International Management Institute Kolkata) is a private, RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group business school in Alipore, Kolkata, founded around 2010-2011, offering an AICTE-approved, NBA and AMBA-accredited two-year PGDM, ranked 42 in NIRF Management 2025.

Imperial College London

Imperial College London, also Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, is a STEMB-focused public research university in South Kensington, London, founded in 1907, independent of the University of London since 2007, ranked 2nd worldwide by QS.

Index of colleges and universities in the United States

Index of colleges and universities in the United States refers to the systematic catalogs of the country's 3,633 degree-granting institutions, maintained through federal data systems and classification frameworks.

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata: research institute and deemed university founded by Mahendralal Sircar on 29 July 1876, where C.V. Raman discovered the Raman Effect, winning India's first science Nobel in 1930.

Indian Institute of Planning and Management

Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM): Delhi-based private autonomous society offering its own certificate and diploma programmes; not affiliated to any university; central subject of the 2014 Delhi High Court MBA/BBA nomenclature judgment.

Indian Institute of Science (ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ)

Indian Institute of Science (ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, IISc), Bengaluru research university founded 27 May 1909 by Jamsetji Tata with Mysore State support; first Indian director CV Raman; NIRF #1 university.

Indian Institutes of Information Technology (भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान)

Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs, भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान) are IT-focused Indian technical institutes, mostly Institutes of National Importance under the 2014 and 2017 PPP acts, admitting via JEE Main through JoSAA.

Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research

The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) are seven autonomous Indian research universities at Berhampur, Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, and Tirupati, integrating BS-MS teaching with basic-science research under the NITSER Act, 2007.

Indian Institutes of Technology (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान)

Indian Institutes of Technology (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान), or IITs: 23 autonomous public engineering institutes of national importance under the 1961 Act, starting with IIT Kharagpur in 1950, admitting undergraduates via JEE Advanced.

Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), founded 17 December 1931 by P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata, is an Institution of National Importance under the ISI Act 1959, MoSPI-funded, with campuses in Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Tezpur, and Giridih.

Indiana State University

Indiana State University (ISU), founded December 20, 1865 as the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute, is a public doctoral/moderate-research university and Sycamores MVC athletics; recent enrollment recovery under President Mike Godard.

Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a public university system founded in 1820 as a state seminary at Bloomington. Its flagship campus is IU Bloomington; since July 2024 its second core campus is independent IU Indianapolis after the IUPUI split, with seven regional campuses, R1 research status, and a $4.7 billion FY2027 budget.

Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington, also known as IU Bloomington, is the flagship residential campus of the Indiana University system in Bloomington, Indiana, founded as a state seminary in 1820.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), public doctoral university in Indiana, PA; founded 1875 as Indiana Normal School; PASSHE member, only system school with PhD programs; R2 Carnegie classification; 9,130 students fall 2026.

Indira Gandhi National Open University (इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय)

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU, इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय), India's national open university under Act No. 50 of 1985, serves over 3 million students through 21 Schools of Studies, 67 Regional Centres, and about 200 ODL and online programmes.

Inner Mongolia Medical University

Inner Mongolia Medical University (内蒙古医科大学), founded 1956 in Hohhot as Inner Mongolia Medical College, renamed 2012; public medical university of Inner Mongolia, doctoral-granting since 2018, known for Mongolian medicine.

Institute of Chemical Technology

Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT Mumbai, formerly UDCT), a government deemed-to-be university founded in 1933 in Matunga, Mumbai, with campuses at Jalna and Bhubaneswar; NIRF 2025 Pharmacy rank 6, NAAC A++.

Institute of Medical Sciences

Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi: BHU's medical institute founded as College of Medical Sciences in 1960, upgraded 1971. Four faculties (Medicine, Ayurveda, Dental Sciences, Nursing), 2,614 hospital beds, Sir Sunderlal Hospital, NIRF Medical rank 6 (2025), AIIMS-like upgradation since 2018.