Purdue Engineering continues to break records for incoming undergraduate students. Its undergraduate programs consistently rank high among their national peers, with U.S. News & World Report placing the programs at #9 in the U.S., and status as the nation's only public university in the global Top 10.

The College is projecting that 18 percent of its incoming students will be underrepresented minorities – a 7 percentage points increase over last year, and that 34 percent of the incoming class will be women.  These numbers represent the largest enrollments of underrepresented minority and female students on record.

Purdue was the first university to have a Women in Engineering Program, established in 1969. It graduated the third–highest number of undergraduate female engineers as currently ranked in ASEE by the Numbers (2022), with 78 percent more female undergraduates enrolled in Engineering than 10 years ago.

The University is the birthplace of the National Society of Black Engineers, established in 1975. It is one of the largest student-governed organizations in the U.S. with more than 600 chapters and 24,000 active members in the U.S. and abroad.

Also, this year, the College has seen its largest number of applications – 24,611 – which has led to the most selective undergraduate class in its history.

The College of Engineering is made up of 11 schools and two divisions: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Agricultural and Biological, Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Education, Industrial, Materials, Mechanical, Nuclear, Construction Engineering and Management, and Environmental and Ecological Engineering.

In addition to the Minority Engineering and Women in Engineering programs, the College houses programs such as EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service), Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP), Office of Professional Practice (OPP), Engineering Undergraduate Research Office (EURO), and Global Engineering Programs and Partnerships (GEPP).