Purdue University
Purdue University, highly ranked in the nation’s top public universities by US.News & World Report, is globally renowned for empowering student success, promoting field-defining research, and providing real-world applications to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Overall, Purdue has earned 20 top-ten rankings and 40 top-20 rankings from national ranking agencies. Numerous luminaries have launched their careers at this Big Ten university, including Neil Armstrong and 21 other astronauts, C-SPAN founder/CEO Brian Lamb, Forbes' "100 Most Powerful Women" honoree Beth Brooke, and legendary basketball coach John Wooden. Purdue’s world-class education and reasonable costs earned it a place on Princeton Review’s "Best Value" college list for 2009, and a no. 9 ranking nationally by SmartMoney in 2009 for return on college investment.
The Boilermaker Community
To complement their classroom- and homework-based challenges, Purdue students also have unmatched opportunities to perform cutting-edge research, serve internships, and enjoy other hands-on learning activities. State-of-the art facilities and centers of innovation such as Discovery Park, the university's $350 million interdisciplinary research hub, and Purdue Research Park, a non-profit high-tech business incubator, draw researchers and entrepreneurs from all over the world to work at Purdue. Forbes magazine ranked Purdue’s home, West Lafayette, the sixth smartest small town in America in 2009. Students, faculty, and staff representing 124 countries provide a unique mixture of culture and diversity to go with the university’s Midwestern roots; Purdue has the second-highest international enrollment among public universities in the country. Students can choose from 16 residences in Purdue’s superior university housing system, explore more than 815 student organizations, sample everything from brick-oven pizza to Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and African cuisine in Purdue’s award-winning dining courts, and enjoy on- and off-campus entertainment options from theatre to Big Ten sports.
