Facts and Figures
College of Engineering facts and figures
- First engineering degree granted in 1878
- 474 faculty and 15,751 students
- Graduate programs ranked 4th and undergraduate 10th overall by U.S. News & World Report
- 5 graduate and 5 undergraduate academic units ranked in top 10 for their disciplines by U.S. News & World Report
- Online graduate program is 3rd among U.S. News & World Report Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs
- Living alumni number more than 100,000.
- $165M in new engineering building construction since 2002
University facts and figures
- Land-grant institution founded in 1869
- West Lafayette campus (2,000+ acres) enrolls more than 41,000 students
- Ranked the 5th -largest international student population of any U.S. public university by Open Doors
- 3,000 tenured/tenure-track and non-tenured faculty
- System-wide research expenditures total $647.3 million
- More than 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 U.S.
- Discovery Park is a $750-million interdisciplinary research and learning complex that houses more than 4,000 faculty and students
Fall Enrollment (2021*)
Students | Women | Underrepresented Minorities | |
---|---|---|---|
Undergraduate | 11,089 | 26.0% | 9.3% |
Graduate | 4,662 | 24.2% | 7.3% |
Degrees Awarded (2020-21*)
Bachelor | Masters | PhD |
---|---|---|
2,013 | 794 | 365 |
* Includes Agricultural and Biological Engineering
*** Program graduated first students in May 2013