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Hamilton Lugar School of
Global and International Studies
Indiana University Bloomington
Student Life

Find your people. Find your place.

Student life at Hamilton Lugar is built around the people you meet, the things you try and the communities you become part of.

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  •  
    #1
    Model UN in the Big Ten
  •  
    750+
    Student organizations across IU Bloomington
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    70%
    Hamilton Lugar students study abroad

Based on 2026 data

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Get Involved

Find your way in.

Find a group, try something new or bring an idea of your own. Hamilton Lugar and IU give you hundreds of ways to take part.

Explore student groups

 

Have a voice

Help shape the school you are part of.

Hamilton Lugar Student Government gives students a direct way to raise ideas, build community and help shape the school.

Meet your student government
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Peer Mentors and Resources

You do not have to figure everything out alone.

Peer mentors can help with classes, opportunities, campus life or simply figuring out what to do next.

Meet a peer mentor

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Live

Live where curiosity comes home with you.

Live with students who share an interest in languages, cultures and the wider world.

Explore the Living-Learning Center

Worth knowing about

Things our students end up doing

Nobody arrives planning all three. Plenty leave having done all three.
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    Compete

    Model United Nations

    Compete {Featured} Model United Nations Research, negotiate and represent a country in one of the strongest Model UN programs in the Big Ten.

  • Students in gloves working together at an outdoor service project, the Global and International Studies Building behind them.
    Serve

    Peace Corps Prep

    Combine coursework, language study and hands-on experience to prepare for service across cultures.

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    Go

    Study Abroad

    Take what you are learning into a different place, language and way of seeing the world.

Find more of IU

Hamilton Lugar is one community inside a much larger university.

Explore IU’s culture centers and 750+ student organizations to find even more ways to connect.
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    Belonging

    Culture centers

    Six centers, each with its own building, staff and calendar.

  • Students sitting together on the grass outside the Global and International Studies Building, eating and talking.
    All of IU

    Student organizations

    More than 750 groups, searchable by what you actually care about.