page_title: Terre Haute, Indiana
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Terre Haute, Indiana / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Rankin Hall on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN.
context_page_description: Terre Haute is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a population of 170,943.
  Located along the Wabash River, Terre Haute is the capital of the Wabash Valley. The city is home to several higher education institutions, including Indiana State University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana.
context_section_description: Terre Haute is served by the Vigo County School Corporation. The corporation manages 18 elementary schools, 5 middle schools, 3 high schools, and 2 alternative schools, enrolling 14, 642 students grades K-12.
  Terre Haute is also home to multiple higher education establishments.
  Indiana State University (ISU) is located in downtown Terre Haute. It has an enrollment of approximately 12,000. The Princeton Review placed ISU on its “Best in the Midwest” list of college and universities for nine consecutive years. ISU was also included in the Forbes' "America's Top 650 Colleges." 
  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is a private engineering school located just east of the city. The school has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the #1 undergraduate engineering school in the nation among institutions whose highest degree in engineering is the master's for 20 consecutive years. The school has an enrollment of approximately 2,200 students on its 200-acre (81 ha) campus.
  Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, the nation's oldest Catholic liberal arts college for women, was founded in 1840 by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and the Sisters of Providence. Traditionally a women's college, in 2015 SMWC began accepting applications from men as commuter students. The campus is located on 67 acres (27 ha) of woods in the unincorporated community of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, between the Wabash River and the Illinois state line. The college is known for its Mari Hulman George School of Equine Studies, which houses 50 horses on campus, as well as its pre-professional programs including pre-veterinarian, pre-law, pre-medicine, pre-dentistry and several niche programs in leadership development, art therapy, and music therapy.
  Ivy Tech Community College, a full-service community college and part of the statewide system, is also located in the city.
  The city has a lending library, the Vigo County Public Library.
caption: Rankin Hall, on the campus of Indiana State University
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