Here are just some of the rankings, recognitions, and highlights Ball State has achieved.
- For the third consecutive year, Ball State has been honored by The Princeton Review as one of the Best Midwestern Colleges in its annual Best Colleges: Region by Region.
- Ball State’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program has been ranked among the top 10 in the country by U.S. News & World Report since 1999.
- Ball State was recognized as a university committed to diversity by Minority Access at its annual National Role Models conference.
- The landscape architecture department was ranked as the fourth best undergraduate program in the nation and number one in the Midwest by Design Intelligence.
- Kiwi magazine’s inaugural “Green College Report” listed Ball State as one of the nation’s top 50 green universities.
- Ball State’s football team competed in its first bowl game since 1996, taking on Rutgers University in the International Bowl in Toronto, Canada.
- Ball State’s journalism program was named one of the top programs in the country by Editor & Publisher.
- Burris Laboratory School, which is located on the Ball State campus and serves as a laboratory for Ball State’s teaching majors, was listed among the nation’s best high schools in a “2008 Best High Schools” analysis by U.S. News & World Report.
- Ball State is ranked 20th in an analysis of the nation’s top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review.
- This fall, the women’s soccer team won its second straight Mid-American Conference (MAC) regular season championship, becoming the first team in MAC history to win two straight regular season titles.
- The Ball State University Museum of Art hosted the exhibitions Japanese Art from the Floating World, which included a first-ever viewing of a group of 20th century post-World War I masterpieces, and Amida Buddha, featuring a sculpture cast in Japan in 1680.
- The Ball State University Foundation was recently named the Small Nonprofit of the Year by Alternative Investment News and its sister publication Foundation and Endowment Money Management for its outstanding investment policies.
- The 2006-07 women’s basketball team played in the Mid-American Conference Tournament finals and made a post-season appearance in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.
- Ball State earned two regional Emmys this academic year, bringing the total won since 2000 to 20—the most won by any American college or university over the last seven years.
- Ball State is one of four universities in Indiana selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to take part in a program that will offer fellowships to exceptional teacher candidates who will complete a year-long master’s program.
- A documentary by an Iraqi doctor who is now a Ball State journalism student and Fulbright Scholar achieved worldwide acclaim, airing on the BBC and HBO.
- Applications for admission to Ball State have been on the rise over the past few years. Over the past two years, applications have increased by 30 percent.
- Ball State launched a newly redesigned Web site this year, which included a new content management system and a new structure that makes the site much easier to navigate.