Purdue University

Purdue University--West Lafayette is a accessible academy that was founded in 1869. It has a absolute undergraduate acceptance of 29,255, its ambience is urban, and the campus admeasurement is 2,468 acres. It utilizes a semester-based bookish calendar.

Purdue University's West Lafayette, Indiana, campus is the capital campus in the Purdue University system, which encompasses four added campuses throughout the state. Nearly 20 percent of acceptance are affiliated with Greek life, and Purdue offers a advanced ambit of activities and organizations. Performance groups cover the "All American" Marching Band, four applesauce bands and two symphony orchestras. The Boilermakers, Purdue’s able-bodied teams, attempt in the Division I Big Ten Conference and are able-bodied accepted for their ascendant men’s and women’s basketball teams. The Boilermaker Special, Purdue’s official mascot, is a railroad adaptable cared for and maintained by the student-run Purdue Reamer Club. Although no acceptance are appropriate to reside in university housing, about one-third of undergraduates reside on campus.

Purdue is fabricated up of 12 schools and colleges, abounding of which serve both undergraduate and alum students. Professional and alum programs cover the well-ranked Academy of Engineering, Krannert Academy of Management, Academy of Education and Academy of Pharmacy. Purdue’s admired Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics aural the Academy of Engineering has acquired the appellation "Cradle of Astronauts." One accepted university tradition: abounding acceptance mark the alpha and end of their time at Purdue by active through either of the campus fountains. Notable alumni cover allegorical academy basketball drillmaster and amateur John Wooden, airheaded administrator Orville Redenbacher and the aboriginal man to airing on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

Founded in 1869, Purdue is Indiana's land-grant university. It is one of the nation's arch institutions with added than 200 areas of undergraduate abstraction and acclaimed analysis initiatives. Purdue's programs in a advanced array of undergraduate and alum disciplines consistently rank a part of the best in the country. Twenty-two of America's astronauts authority Purdue degrees. Acceptance from all 50 states and added than 130 countries, accompany affluent assortment to the capital campus in West Lafayette. Although a ample university, Purdue maintains an affectionate atmosphere that awful ethics alone needs and achievements.