Purdue University offers over 500 undergraduate majors and specializations, as well as 70 graduate programs for its 72,000 students.
Its flagship campus, located in the town of West Lafayette, is divided into 10 smaller undergraduate schools: Agriculture, Education, Engineering, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, Management, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science, Technology, and Veterinary Medicine (in addition to the Graduate School).
Multiple major ranking sites have good things to say about Purdue. For example, the Center for World University Rankings considers Purdue to be #52 worldwide, and the Financial Times called the school’s MBA program #56 in the world.
Purdue has also developed an increasingly well-known online writing lab that allows anyone anywhere to instantly answer whatever questions concerning style and grammar their writing may raise.
The university has produced 13 Nobel Prize Laureates. Purdue also has a very strong connection to NASA, having produced an impressive 23 astronauts. In fact, over one-third of NASA’s manned missions have had a Purdue graduate on board.
