A New Place to Live
Making the Move
Indianapolis, the nation’s 13th largest city, has a great balance of cosmopolitan style and small-town charm.
Our city is home to 10 professional sports teams, wonderful neighborhoods, museums and cultural organizations, and boasts an extensive parks and greenways system, the Indianapolis Zoo, and The Children’s Museum. The area consistently ranks as one of the Top 10 places to live.
For more information on all that Indianapolis has to offer, please visit:
• indydt.com
• developindy.com
• visitindy.com
When you are about to begin your medical training, there are many practical matters to deal with. Where are you going to live? Buy food? Work out? These suggestions will help you get started.
The Survival Guide is a student publication. It includes candid comments about the first and second year experience at each of the IUSM campuses. Third year students will also find the Indianapolis section helpful as they relocate to Indy.
For Indianapolis housing options, the Housing website is also a valuable resource.
Q: I am going to be starting medical school on the Indy campus and was curious as to what the most convenient bank is near campus. I want to set up a bank account either in a bank or credit union, but do not live in Indy yet so I am not sure what is the most convenient. Also, do you know if there are ATM's on campus?
A: This is a great question where the answer should be shared with all first year medical students. You have the choice of several major banks (Chase, Key Bank, M7I Bank, PNC or Regions) and a slew of smaller regional banks (Bank of Indianapolis, Huntington Bank, Charter Bank or Fifth Third Bank) in the Indianapolis community, which only have ATMs with in Indianapolis Region and not on campus. Chase is the exception where they have a few ATM stations on campus. In my opinion, the best choice for a bank is the credit union, the Indiana Members Credit Union. The minimal fees charged to you as a member is a great big plus and the cost of being a member is less than what you experience with other local banks. There are ATMs on campus where you can take money out at no cost to you as a member. Additionally, you can use any ATM in the Indianapolis community that has Alliance One and you can take out money at no cost to you. In my situation, I live in Broad Ripple and I do not have an Indiana Members Credit Union nearby, but there is a Forum Credit Union a few blocks away and I can use their ATM up to three times and it would not cost me anything to do so. You can do online banking and never have to go to the branch, but if you needed to go to the branch, there is a full-service branch in the Campus Center at IUPUI. For more information on the Indiana Members Credit Union, go to http://creditunionaccess.com/cu68259.htm. A good site for information on Indianapolis Banks, go to http://www.yellowpages.com/indianapolis-in/banks.
Banking is a personal choice. I would encourage you to use the resources above to find a bank that best fits your needs.
Note: We continue to update the relocation guides. If you would like to contribute, please email mgray@iupui.edu.
