Indiana University Bloomington, public, coeducational institution in Bloomington, Indiana, and part of the Indiana University system. The school was founded in 1820. Indiana University Bloomington confers associate, bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees in a variety of fields. It offers courses of study in the arts and sciences, education, applied art, the fine arts, engineering and applied sciences, communications, business, family studies, urban planning, computer and information sciences, law, health sciences and technology, performing arts, labor studies, resource management, radio and television studies, real estate, recreation and leisure services, religious studies, social work, and urban studies. Research facilities at the university include the Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center, the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, the Black Film Center, the Center for Innovative Computer Applications, and the Center on Global Change and World Peace.