Purdue Semiconductor Degrees

Purdue launches comprehensive semiconductor and microelectronics education at scale

U.S. economic security critically depends on developing talent pipeline in this vital field.

In the next five years, a minimum of 50,000 trained semiconductor engineers will be needed in the United States to meet the overwhelming and rapidly growing demand. Purdue University is answering that call with a comprehensive set of innovative, interdisciplinary credentials and degrees in semiconductors and microelectronics.

Purdue's comprehensive new Semiconductor Degrees Program (SDP) is a suite of innovative credentials and degrees that will educate both graduate and undergraduate students, enabling a quick ramp-up of skilled talent and creating the next-generation of semiconductor workforce to reassert American preeminence in this critical industry.

Purdue's semiconductor and microelectronics program includes these special features:

Content Spanning semiconductor ecosystem

Over 100 semiconductor-related courses, addressing all semiconductor industry sectors -- chip design, manufacturing, advanced packaging, chemicals/materials, tools and supply chain management.

Residential Undergraduate and graduate programs

Undergraduate programs including university-wide certificate incorporating individual/team projects, internships/co-ops and study-abroad. Undergraduate concentrations/minors and graduate concentrations in multiple departments. Associate degrees through partner Ivy Tech Community College. Transfer programs with partner institutions.

Online Graduate Programs

First-of-its-kind in US online program dedicated to semiconductors. Online MS degrees (multiple departments). Interdisciplinary Engineering MS degree. Certificate (incl. non-degree).

Innovative delivery

Through innovative classrooms, hands-on and virtual labs, online learning platform nanoHUB/Chipshub, co-op and internship opportunities, and design-to-fab team projects. "Breadth at the edges ", e.g. other sectors of ecosystem, via one-credit courses.

Broad scope

Programs in various disciplines, with focuses from semiconductor materials, devices, and manufacturing to system on chip design, thermal management of electronics, heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging, rad-hard microelectronics, security, and sustainable manufacturing.

Broad partnership

Cornerstone with Department of Defense's SCALE (Scalable Asymmetric Lifecyle Engagement) program, American Semiconductor Academy (ASA), and other Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act workforce consortia. Partnerships with US and international universities. SDP has numerous industry partnerships and is advised by a leadership board of industry senior executives.

Degrees, Certificates, and Credentials

Type of Degree or Credential Residential Online
Undergraduate Certificate (with experiential components)
Undergraduate concentrations and minors
Interdisciplinary Engineering MS degree
MS with concentration (ECE)
MS with concentration (ME)
Online Certificate (graduate)

Residential

  • Undergraduate Concentrations in Microelectronics and Semiconductors

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Chemical Engineering (in progress)

    Mechanical Engineering (in progress)

    Materials Engineering (in progress)

Online

To learn more about Purdue Semiconductor degrees, please email semiconductors@purdue.edu.

To apply to Purdue, go to https://www.purdue.edu/purdue/admissions.