Facts and Figures

College of Engineering facts and figures

• First engineering degree granted in 1878
• 452 faculty and nearly 14,000 (13,973) students
• Graduate programs ranked 7^th and undergraduate 9^th overall by U.S. News & World Report
• 6 graduate and 6 undergraduate academic units ranked in top 10 for their disciplines by U.S. News & World Report
• Online graduate program is 3^rd 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 5^th -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 (2020*)

	Students	Women	Underrepresented Minorities
Undergraduate	10,046	25.8%	9.0%
Graduate	3,927	24.4%	7.3%

Degrees Awarded (2019-20*)

Bachelor	Masters	PhD
2,005	772	352

* Includes Agricultural and Biological Engineering

** Purdue Alumni Association

*** Program graduated first students in May 2013