Facts and Figures

College of Engineering facts and figures

• First engineering degree granted in 1878
• 494 faculty and 16,423 students
• Graduate programs ranked 6^th and undergraduate 8^th overall by U.S. News & World Report
• 9 graduate and 7 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 52,000 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 (2024*)

	Students	Women	Underrepresented Minorities
Undergraduate	13,688	27.3%	11.4%
Graduate	5,617	23.4%	8.0%

Degrees Awarded (2023-24*)

Bachelor	Masters	PhD
2,414	1,298	361

 

* Includes Agricultural and Biological Engineering

** Purdue Alumni Association