Facts and Figures
College of Engineering facts and figures
- First engineering degree granted in 1878
- 452 faculty and nearly twelve and a half thousand students: 12,477
- Graduate programs rank 7th and undergraduate 8th by U.S. News & World Report
- Online graduate program is 5th in the U.S. News & World Report Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs
- Living alumni number more than 82,000.
- $165M in new engineering buildings since 2002
University facts and figures
- Land-grant institution founded in 1869
- West Lafayette campus (2000+ acres) enrolls over 41,000 students
- Ranked the 2nd largest international student population of any U.S. public university by Open Doors
- 3,000 tenured/tenure-track and non-tenure faculty
- System-wide research expenditures total $647.3 million
- Over 400 research labs on the West Lafayette campus
- With nearly 500,000 square feet of space, the Purdue Research Park is the largest university affiliated incubation complex in the country
- Discovery Park is a $750 million interdisciplinary research and learning complex that houses over 4,000 faculty and students
Fall Enrollment (2017*)
| Students | Women | Underrepresented Minorities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | 8,918 | 25.2% | 7.5% |
| Graduate | 3,559 | 23.5% | 4.7% |
Degrees Awarded (2016-17*)
| Bachelor | Masters | PhD |
|---|---|---|
| 1,684 | 679 | 289 |
Alumni Counts
| Aeronautics and Astronautics | 8,252 |
|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological | 1,629 |
| Biomedical | 774 |
| Chemical | 8,450 |
| Civil | 12,224 |
| Construction and Management | 1,218 |
| Electrical and Computer | 21,756 |
| Environmental and Ecological | 124*** |
| Engineering Administration | 1,317 |
| Engineering Education | 2,763 |
| Industrial | 9,149 |
| Interdisciplinary | 2,264 |
| Materials | 1,921 |
| Mechanical | 18,703 |
| Nuclear | 1,122 |
* Includes Agricultural and Biological Engineering
*** Program graduated first students in May 2013