BLOOMINGTON A new school year is underway in Bloomington and there are officially more Hoosiers on campus than ever before.

Indiana University officially counted 48,626 undergraduates at its flagship campus, including a freshman class of just more than 10,000 students.

"It's exciting to see that people do want to come to IU," said Brenda Stopher, the university's vice president of student enrollment. "That says we're doing something right."

More than 5,000 freshmen in Bloomington are from Indiana, which means there are slightly more in-state students than out-of-state students in the incoming class.

Isaiah Julkes, a freshman from East Chicago, said staying in-state to attend IU was his childhood dream.

"In my household, I saw a lot of IU stuff. My mom has IU mugs and IU everything," s

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