Facts and Figures

College of Engineering facts and figures

• First engineering degree granted in 1878
• 474 faculty and 15,751 students
• Graduate programs ranked 4^th and undergraduate 10^th 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 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 (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

** Purdue Alumni Association

*** Program graduated first students in May 2013