Purdue University College Portrait
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- Students
Find out more about the characteristics of students who attend Purdue.
- Admissions
See how many students applied, accepted, and enrolled at Purdue. Learn more about students’ high school preparation and test scores.
- College Costs & Financial Aid
Learn about costs to attend Purdue and how much financial aid is typically awarded.
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- Classes and Campus Life
Learn more about professors, where students live, and campus safety at Purdue.
- Student Experiences
Discover ways to be actively involved in your education at Purdue – inside and outside the classroom.
- Majors, Graduation and Next Steps
See which majors are most popular at Purdue and what recent graduates plan to do after earning their bachelor's degree.
- Student Success & Progress
Discover how many students who start at Purdue finish their bachelor's degree and how long it takes.
- Student Learning Outcomes
Figure out what learning gains to expect in critical thinking, writing, and other important subjects at Purdue.
- VSA SLO Pilot Project Experience at Purdue
Purdue Classes & Instructors
| Classroom Environment | |
|---|---|
| Students per Faculty | 14 to 1 |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 30 students | 60% |
| Undergraduate classes with fewer than 50 students | 83% |
| Total Full-Time Instructional Faculty | 2,056 |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Female | 31% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Are Persons of Color | 22% |
| % of Full-Time Instructional Faculty Who Have the Highest Academic Degree Offered in Their Field of Study | 98% |
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Campus-based Housing
89% of new freshmen live in campus-based housing or residence halls.
35% of all undergraduates live on campus
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Campus Safety
Purdue’s Environmental Health and Public Safety team serves the community in partnership with the city, county and state emergency response and compliance agencies. The annual security report “Your Campus, Your Safety” , which details many of the programs and tools available to the campus community can be found here: http://www.purdue.edu/police/reports/pdf/Annual%20Security%20Report-%20Your%20Campus_Your%20Safety_West%20Lafayette.pdf. The EHPS team includes Purdue’s Police, Radiological and Environmental Management, Emergency Preparedness and Planning, Fire Protection Engineering, and Regulatory compliance teams, as well as a full time Fire and Emergency Medical Services team. Purdue Police and Purdue Fire departments work closely with Student Affairs and University Residences to provide virtual and classroom training to help students stay safe on campus. Particularly popular are the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) program, and the Citizen’s Police Academy. Purdue has more than 300 Emergency 911 telephones installed across campus that ring directly into the Public Safety Dispatch for quick response to on campus events. Students are encouraged to sign up for emergency text messages that provide “heads up” information quickly, 24 hours a day.
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Carnegie Classification of Institutional Characteristics
The Carnegie Classification's were created "to reference the great diversity of colleges and universities in the United States, and ... enable [people] to identify groups of roughly comparable institutions." For information on the Carnegie Classifications system, please visit their website: http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/
- Basic Type
- Research Universities (very high research activity)
- Size and Setting
- Large four-year, primarily residential
- Enrollment Profile
- High undergraduate
- Undergraduate Profile
- Full-time four-year, more selective, lower transfer-in
- Undergraduate Instructional Program
- Professions plus arts & sciences, high graduate coexistence
- Graduate Instructional Program
- Comprehensive doctoral with medical/veterinary