Purdue University
Common Data Set 2014-15
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Acceptance Rate
12.7%
Applications
28,903
Admitted
3,679
SAT Composite
0.164-0.118
SAT Reading
0.005-0.012
All Extracted Fields
A. General Information
- Address Line 2:
- http://www.purdue.edu
- Email Address:
- www.purdue.edu/Purdue/admissions
- Are your responses to the CDS posted for reference on your institution's Website?
- x
- If yes, please provide the URL of the corresponding Web page:
- Classify your undergraduate institution:
- We invite you to indicate if there are items on the CDS for which you cannot use the requested analytic convention, cannot provide data for the cohort requested, whose methodology is unclear, or about which you have questions or comments in general. This information will not be published but will help the publishers further refine CDS items.
- Women's college
B. Enrollment And Persistence
- Degree-seeking, first-time first-year students: males
- 24
- Other first-year, degree-seeking: males
- 16016
- Total degree-seeking: males
- 1024
- All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses: males
- 2510
- Total undergraduate Full-Time Students: males
- 15
- Total All Full-Time Students: Males
- 1762
- Total All Part-Tim Students: Males
- 45
- Total All Students: males
- 735
- Degree-seeking, first-time first-year students: females
- 11
- Other first-year, degree-seeking: females
- 11865
- Total degree-seeking: females
- 738
- All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses: females
- 1940
- Total undergraduate Full-Time Students: females
- 7
- Total undergraduate students: females
- Degree-Seeking First-Time First Year
- Degree-seeking, first-time: females
- 157
- All other degree-seeking: females
- 4022
- All other graduates enrolled in credit courses: females
- 9
- Total graduate Full-Time Students: females
- 473
- Degree-seeking, first-time: females
- 134
- All other degree-seeking: females
- 6372
- Degree-seeking, first-time first-year students: Unknown
- 75
- Other first-year, degree-seeking: Unknown
- 774
- Total degree-seeking: Unknown
- 361
- All other undergraduates enrolled in credit courses: Unknown
- 1560
- Total undergraduate Full-Time Students: Unknown
- 144
- Total undergraduate students: Unknown
- Degree-Seeking Undergraduates (include first-time first-year)
- Degree-seeking, first-time: Unknown
- 896
- All other degree-seeking: Unknown
- 18877
- All other graduates enrolled in credit courses: Unknown
- 34
- Total graduate Full-Time Students: Unknown
- 1601
- Degree-seeking, first-time: Unknown
- 514
- All other degree-seeking: Unknown
- 29038
- Nonresidents
- 1524
- Black or African American, non-Hispanic
- 352
- White, non-Hispanic
- 4901
- American Indian or Alaska Native, non-Hispanic
- 0.7384360403796896
- Total
- 0.926254154138313
C. First-Time, First-Year Admission
- Total first-time, first-year males who applied
- 15601
- Total first-time, first-year students of unknown sex who applied
- 13302
- Total first-time, first-year males who were admitted
- 3674
- Total first-time, first-year females who were admitted
- 5
- Total first-time, first-year students of unknown sex who enrolled
- Yes
- Total full-time, first-time, first-year males who enrolled
- 1215
- Total part-time, first-time, first-year males who enrolled
- 1208
- Total full-time, first-time, first-year females who enrolled
- 368
- Yes, by:
- C22
- Deadline for housing deposit (MMDD):Month
- x
- Deadline for housing deposit (MMDD): Day
- x
- Do you have a policy of placing students on a waiting list?
- Units Recommended
- Total academic units
- x
- English
- x
- Mathematics
- x
- Science
- x
- Social studies
- x
- Academic electives
- x
- Computer Science
- x
- Rigor of secondary school record
- ADMISSION
- Class rank
- Require
- Academic GPA
- x
- Please provide additional information if the importance of any specific academic or nonacademic factors differ by academic program.
- As a validity check on the application essay
- Specify:
- 0.54
- Percent Submitting SAT Scores
- 0.439
- Percent Submitting ACT Scores
- 0.153
- Number Submitting SAT Scores
- 0.273
- Number Submitting ACT Scores
- 0.07
- SAT Composite: 25th Percentile
- 0.164
- SAT Composite: 50th Percentile
- 0.218
- SAT Composite: 75th Percentile
- 0.118
- SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 25th Percentile
- 0.005
- SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 50th Percentile
- 0.015
- SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 75th Percentile
- 0.012
- SAT Math: 25th Percentile
- 0
- SAT Math: 50th Percentile
- 0
- SAT Math: 75th Percentile
- 0
- ACT Composite: 25th Percentile
- 0
- ACT Composite: 50th Percentile
- 0
- ACT Composite: 75th Percentile
- 0
- ACT Math: 25th Percentile
- 1
- ACT Math: 50th Percentile
- 0.9999999999999999
- ACT Math: 75th Percentile
- 1
- ACT Science: 75th Percentile
- 0.42
- ACT Reading: 75th Percentile
- 0.77
- SAT Math: 400-499
- 0.55
- SAT Math: 300-399
- 0.25
- SAT Math: 200-299
- 0.11
- SAT Math: Total
- 0.07
- ACT Composite: 30-36
- Yes
- ACT Composite: 24-29
- x
- ACT Composite: 18-23
- 60
- ACT Composite: 12-17
- Yes
- ACT Composite: 6-11
- x
- ACT English: 30-36
- No
- ACT English: 12-17
- No
D. Transfer Admission
- Does your institution enroll transfer students? (If no, please skip to Section E)
- x
- Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a two-year institution:
- Yes
- Maximum number of credits or courses that may be transferred from a two-year institution:
- No
- Describe other transfer credit policies:
- from a two-year institution:
- Unknown
- Applicants
- Total
- 1317
- Unknown
- Admitted Applicants
- Total
- 492
- Unknown
- Enrolled Applicants
- Total
- 306
- Fall
- D3
- Essay or personal statement
- Required of All
- Interview
- x
- Standardized test scores
- x
- Statement of good standing from prior institution(s)
- x
- List any other application requirements specific to transfer applicants:
- transfer applicants, specify
- Winter Notification Date: Month
- varies by
- Winter Notification Date: Day
- varies by
- Spring Notification Date: Month
- major
- Spring Notification Date: Day
- major
E. Academic Offerings and Policies
- Specify:
- This question has been removed from the Common Data Set.
- Describe:
- again when a new Academic Libraries Survey is in place.
F. Student Life
- Percent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)
- 0.36986824517853734
- Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing
- 0.92
- Percent who live off campus or commute
- 0.08
- Percent of students age 25 and older
- 3e-05
- Average age of full-time students
- 18
- Average age of all students (full- and part-time)
- 18
- Percent who are from out of state (exclude international/nonresidents from the numerator and denominator)
- 0.32590974031431214
- Percent of males who join fraternities
- 0.17
- Percent of females who join sororities
- 0.2
- Percent who live in college-owned, -operated, or -affiliated housing
- 0.37
- Percent who live off campus or commute
- 0.63
- Percent of students age 25 and older
- 0.036
- Average age of full-time students
- 20.1
- Average age of all students (full- and part-time)
- 20.4
- Specify:
- Other housing options (specify):
G. Annual Expenses
- Tuition: In-state (out-of-district):
- 9208
- Tuition: Out-of-state:
- 9208
- Tuition: Nonresident
- 28010
- Tuition: In-state (out-of-district):
- 9208
- Tuition: Out-of-state:
- 9208
- Tuition: Nonresident
- 28010
- Required Fees:
- 794
- Housing Only (on-campus):
- 10030
- Food Only (on-campus meal plan):
- 4860
- Required Fees:
- 794
- Housing Only (on-campus):
- 10030
- Food Only (on-campus meal plan):
- 4860
- Do tuition and fees vary by undergraduate instructional program?
- No
- If yes, what percentage of full-time undergraduates pay more than the tuition and fees reported in $G$1?
- x
- Transportation:
- Residents
- Other expenses:
- 1220
- Transportation
- Commuters (living at home)
- Other expenses:
- 1220
- Transportation:
- Commuters (not living at home)
- Other expenses:
- 1220
- PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS:
- 210
H. Financial Aid
- a) Students notified on or about (date):
- Check off criteria used in awarding institutional aid. Check all that apply.
- a) Students notified on or about (date): Month
- Non-Need Based
- a) Students notified on or about (date): Day
- Non-Need Based
- b) Students notified on a rolling basis:
- Alumni affiliation
- If yes, starting date (Month):
- X
- If yes, starting date (Day):
- X
- Academic Year
- 2726638
- Federal
- 1374
- State all states, not only the state in which your institution is located
- 444
- Institutional: Endowed scholarships, annual gifts and tuition funded grants, awarded by the college, excluding athletic aid and tuition waivers (which are reported below).
- 380
- Scholarships/grants from external sources (e.g. Kiwanis, National Merit) not awarded by the college
- 380
- Total Scholarships/Grants
- 238
- Student loans from all sources (excluding parent loans)
- 131
- Federal Work-Study
- 157
- State and other (e.g., institutional) work-study/employment (Note: Excludes Federal Work-Study captured above.)
- 69.2
- Total Self-Help
- 7576
- Parent Loans
- 5829.04
- Tuition Waivers Note: Reporting is optional. Report tuition waivers in this row if you choose to report them. Do not report tuition waivers elsewhere.
- 4224.4
- Athletic Awards
- 4031.93
- A. Number of degree-seeking undergraduate students (CDS Item $B$1 if reporting on Fall 2024 cohort)
- 6696.83
- B. Number of students in line a who applied for need-based financial aid
- 202
- C. Number of students in line b who were determined to have financial need
- 25714.44
- A. Number of degree-seeking undergraduate students (CDS Item $B$1 if reporting on Fall 2024 cohort)
- 4141.04
- B. Number of students in line a who applied for need-based financial aid
- 7
- C. Number of students in line b who were determined to have financial need
- 13235.38
- A. Any loan program: Federal Perkins, Federal Stafford Subsidized and Unsubsidized, institutional, state, private loans that your institution is aware of, etc. Include both Federal Direct Student Loans and Federal Family Education Loans.
- X
- Specify:
- Loans
- Priority date for filing required financial aid forms:
- Federal Pell
- Deadline for filing required financial aid forms:
- State scholarships/grants
- No deadline for filing required forms (applications processed on a rolling basis)
- College/university scholarship or grant aid from institutional funds
I. Instructional Faculty And Class Size
- 2-9
- to 1
- 20-29
- 28560
J. Disciplinary Areas of Degrees Conferred
- Communication/journalism
- Diploma/Certificates
- Communication technologies
- 9.8
- Computer and information sciences
- 0
- Personal and culinary services
- 0.2
- Education
- 0.5
- Engineering
- 2.7
- Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
- 5.2
- Law/legal studies
- 0.7
- English
- 9.4
- Liberal arts/general studies
- 0.9
- Library science
- 0.2
- Biological/life sciences
- 1.8
- Military science and military technologies
- 0.4
- Interdisciplinary studies
- 0
- Philosophy and religious studies
- 3.4
- Theology and religious vocations
- 1.1
- Science technologies
- 0.5
- Psychology
- 0.2
- Homeland Security, law enforcement, firefighting, and protective services
- 0
- Social sciences
- 2.7
- Mechanic and repair technologies
- 0.5
- Visual and performing arts
- 2.1
- Other
- 0.2
- TOTAL (should = 100%)
- 1.4
- Communication/journalism
- Associate
- Communication technologies
- 2.7
- Computer and information sciences
- 0
- Personal and culinary services
- 0
- Education
- 0
- Engineering
- 0
- Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
- 0
- Law/legal studies
- 0
- English
- 0
- Liberal arts/general studies
- 2.7
- Library science
- 0
- Biological/life sciences
- 0
- Military science and military technologies
- 0
- Interdisciplinary studies
- 0
- Philosophy and religious studies
- 0
- Theology and religious vocations
- 0
- Science technologies
- 0
- Psychology
- 0
- Homeland Security, law enforcement, firefighting, and protective services
- 0
- Social sciences
- 0
- Mechanic and repair technologies
- 2.7
- Visual and performing arts
- 0
- Other
- 0
- TOTAL (should = 100%)
- 0
- Communication/journalism
- Bachelor’s
- Communication technologies
- 5.897
- Computer and information sciences
- 1.347
- Personal and culinary services
- 0.362
- Education
- 0.333
- Engineering
- 2.724
- Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
- 4.593
- Law/legal studies
- 4.868
- English
- 21.371
- Liberal arts/general studies
- 3.68
- Library science
- 0.695
- Biological/life sciences
- 1.898
- Military science and military technologies
- 1.275
- Interdisciplinary studies
- 0.014
- Philosophy and religious studies
- 3.39
- Theology and religious vocations
- 2.854
- Science technologies
- 0.609
- Psychology
- 1.188
- Homeland Security, law enforcement, firefighting, and protective services
- 0.232
- Social sciences
- 2.028
- Mechanic and repair technologies
- 2.782
- Visual and performing arts
- 6.418
- Other
- 1.71
- TOTAL (should = 100%)
- 2.202