More About the Applications Study - College of Engineering - Purdue University

More About the Degrees Awarded Study

Peer bachelor’s degree counts were sourced primarily from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Counts exclude Computer Science (CS) degrees. In select cases, degree counts were sourced from public dashboards to correct missing data or suspected reporting errors.

More About the Applications Study

Peer application counts were sourced from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and from public dashboards and websites, where available. (2024 application counts were largely gathered from public websites, as most schools don’t have 2024 ASEE data loaded yet.)

Many peers, including MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC, and Texas A&M house Computer Science (CS) within engineering, whereas Purdue and Georgia Tech do not. To ensure a fair comparison across institutions, adjustments were made to account for differences in how CS is structured within engineering programs. Specifically, where peer college data include CS applications, and where it was not possible to locate public admissions data with department-level granularity, Purdue used ASEE’s enrollment data to approximate CS applications. Purdue assumed the yearly proportion of CS enrollment-to-total-engineering enrollment matches the proportion of CS applications-to-total-engineering applications. Then the estimated CS applications were removed from the total.

Purdue application counts include cases in which the individual applied to Engineering as their No. 1 choice but was denied entry to Engineering and admitted to their No. 2 choice.