A new collaboration is aimed at growing Indiana's engineering workforce and creating another pathway for Indiana residents to become Purdue engineers. Ivy Tech, the nation's largest singly Higher Learning Commission accredited statewide community college system, and Purdue University, No. 2 in the nation by the American Society for Engineering Education for awarding the most engineering bachelor's degrees in 2022, offer Green2Gold.
The program will offer a pathway to a combined “2+2” degree starting with an Associate of Science in engineering from Ivy Tech and leading to a Bachelor of Science in engineering from Purdue.
Ivy Tech Columbus campus will be the first to offer the program, starting this fall. Plans call for Green2Gold to expand to other select Ivy Tech campuses in subsequent years.
Green2Gold will ensure employers in leading industries, such as advanced manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, have access to highly skilled and homegrown engineering talent.
The Green2Gold program allows talented Ivy Tech students to transfer to Purdue to earn a world-class Purdue engineering degree. As a land-grant university, Purdue continues its mission of preparing students to address Indiana's workforce needs as it has for the past 150 years.”
Arvind Raman
John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering
This innovative partnership with Purdue puts a high-quality, four-year engineering degree within the grasp of many talented Hoosiers. Purdue is the gold standard in engineering education, and our Ivy Tech expertise in intentional, attentive and intensive cohort programming will prepare students for success on the track to a four-year degree.”
Steven Combs
Chancellor of Ivy Tech Columbus
Contact
Purdue University
Tyson McFall-Wankat
Project Manager for Undergraduate Initiatives
Office of Undergraduate Education
tjmcfall@purdue.edu
Ivy Tech Columbus
Robbie King
Recruiter/Assistant Director
Office of Admissions
jking228@ivytech.edu