Purdue University - West Lafayette
School info
4.2
Overall Quality
Reputation
4.7
Food
4.1
Clubs
4.2
Facilities
4.2
Internet
3.8
Location
3.5
Opportunities
4.4
Safety
4.5
Social
4
Happiness
4.3
Basic Information
Location
- West Lafayette, IN
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Public land-grant research university
- Established: May 6, 1869; 155 years ago (1869-05-06)
- Founder: John Purdue
Academic information
Key Area
- Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration
- Emerging Logic
- Memory
- and Interconnect Technologies
- Microelectronics & Nanotechnology
- Automatic Control
- Schweitzer Power and Energy Systems
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 52,211 (fall 2023)
- Undergraduates: 39,170 (fall 2023)
- Postgraduates: 13,041 (fall 2023)
- Academic Staff: 2,974 (fall 2023)
- Administrative Staff: Approximately 1,200
Notable Alumni
- Neil Armstrong
- Chesley Sullenberger
- Gus Grissom
- Eugene Cernan
- John Wooden
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Students talk about this school
Good reviews
Overall 5
great school
Overall 5
The best school ever. Sports are great, academics are great, clubs are great. Social life is awesome. Many many opportunities, like career fairs and clubs. You can walk to all of your classes from anywhere. It is awesome here.
Overall 5
great school
Overall 5
Glad I came
Overall 5
I absolutely love living and studying here as an academic researcher.
Overall 5
Honestly everything I could've asked for in a university especially with engineering.
Overall 5
Absolutely love this school, boiler up!
Overall 4.9
Good uni with ice College town vibe.
Overall 4.9
FSCL is absolutely amazing. I love the community here and environment. Academics are top tier. Only complaint is that the bars that are here have the longest lines in history.
Overall 4.8
I love it here. West Lafayette is meh but you can find things to do in surrounding areas.
Bad reviews
Overall 1
do not waste your money if you're not coming for engineering. The bus system is so disorganized and unreliable, the TAs do not care about you or your questions, the campus is so ugly and has no physical beauty, everyone sticks to their own clicks and it's so exclusive, everything is too expensive but poor quality, and the buildings are too old