Facts on House Enacted Act 1001 related to Indiana public universities’ ‘low-enrollment programs’ (June 10, 2025)
- No immediate program changes: Purdue has received only a preliminary (and now outdated) list of low-conferred degree programs from the state of Indiana and is told to expect an updated version later this summer. Any potential decisions would follow in accordance with that future list by the end of the 2025-26 academic year. Lists recently shared by the media are not accurate.
- Students will not be impacted mid-degree: The state of Indiana allows its public universities to complete the existing commitment to all currently enrolled and incoming students. Degree programs are not expired until current students have completed their studies.
- There are multiple options of potential decisions, one of which is merging multiple low-enrollment programs into one program. Merging programs will not impact student opportunities: Any merging of existing programs into or under larger degree programs and Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes will not reduce student opportunities. In fact, historically and currently there are many cases where multiple majors reside in one degree program.