Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is highly ranked in the nations top public universities by U.S.News & World Report, and is globally renowned for academic excellence, cutting-edge research and outreach.
Overall, Purdue has earned 18 top-10 academic rankings and 34 top-20 rankings from national ranking agencies for its programs and supports many successful alumni in the sciences, engineering, agriculture, and the arts and humanities. Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, the first and last men to walk on the moon, are among 22 Purdue graduates to have been selected by NASA for space flight. This Big Ten campus of 39,100 students has more than 200 majors and programs in 10 colleges and schools, and celebrates more than 400,800 living Boilermaker alumni around the world. It is also one of the most international campuses in the U.S., with over 5,000 international students seeking degrees in all majors.
