Purdue University

The Purdue students are working at various companies. As per the First Destination report, the median salary of Purdue graduates is USD 64,000 or INR 54 LPA. Some of the top companies employing Purdue students are:

• PwC - PricewaterhouseCoopers
• PepsiCo, Inc.
• Amazon
• NTT Data Services
• Eli Lilly & Company
• Deloitte (Management Consulting)
• Crowe LLP
• JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• KPMG
• Cummins Inc.

Purdue University is renowned for its research opportunities, rankings, academic excellence, and innovation. It provides a wide range of programs including Engineering; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services; Biological and Biomedical Sciences. As per the enrollment statistics, over 52,000 students took Purdue University admission, of which more than 39,000 enrolled in UG programs and over 13,000 in PG programs.

Purdue University has four campuses  West Lafayette is the main campus. West Campus is better than rest in terms of facilities, better opportunities, and safety. West Lafayette has better national and international reputation and provides better access to certain majors and top notch faculties. The campus is also famous for its high-tech corporations, safe neighborhood, and high quality of life.

Purdue University offers over 200 UG and PG majors to its students. Some popular majors include Engineering; Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Engineering / Engineering-Related Technologies; and more.

Purdue University's main campus is in West Lafayette, Indiana. The campus is spread over nearly 2,500 acres and is home to 13 colleges and schools. West Lafayette campus has two art galleries and more than 30 musical ensembles through which it offers various musical and theatrical events. The campus is also renowned for quality of life, safety, several parks, and high-tech corporations.

The University of Southern California (USC) and Purdue University offers quality MS in Computer Science programs to international students. The USC MS CS fees is around INR 38 L and Purdue MS in SC fees is around INR 25 L. Therefore, Purdue is good for international students to study MS in Computer Science in the USA.

Purdue University acceptance rate is nearly 50%, which means admissions are moderately tough. Students need to have a good academic record and meet all the eligibility requirements.

Purdue selects students based in very important factors like overall grades in their academics, essays, personal background and experiences, grades related to the major they want to pursue etc. 

Along with scoring good grades in academics, students must prove themselves in volunteer activities and extracurricular activities during Purdue University admission. The university prioritizes factors, such as rigor of secondary school record, class rank, academic GPA, recommendations, standardized test scores, application essays, extracurricular activity, and overall personality to select candidates under various majors.

There is no compulsion to submit GRE scores for graduate programs at Purdue University. Students prefer to submit scores to create a positive impact on their resumes. They submit their scores during admission and their basic range was between 310 and 320. So we can conclude that Purdue University might accept these scores during graduate admissions.

Purdue University attracts students from all over the world because of its great academic reputation, some reasons are given below - 

• Accreditation from very well known organizations
• A really good campus
• A nice range of options

According to the unofficial source, one of the best colleges, Purdue University, took the #46 spot among national universities.

The university received more than 59,000 applications for the class of 2026.

More than 40,000 were admitted to the university including more than 10,000 enrolled.