Purdue University Main Campus - SAT Scores and Admissions Data

• Percent of Applicants Admitted: 61%
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• GPA, SAT and ACT Graph for Purdue
• Test Scores -- 25th / 75th Percentile
  • SAT Critical Reading: 510 / 620
  • SAT Math: 550 / 680
  • SAT Writing: 510 / 620
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  • ACT Composite: 24 / 30
  • ACT English: 23 / 30
  • ACT Math: 25 / 31
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• Total Enrollment: 40,849 (31,988 undergraduates)
• Gender Breakdown: 58% Male / 42% Female
• 94% Full-time

• Tuition and Fees: $9,900 (in-state); $28,702 (out-of-state)
• Books: $1,370 (why so much?)
• Room and Board: $10,378
• Other Expenses: $1,820
• Total Cost: $23,468 (in-state); $42,270 (out-of-state)

• Percentage of New Students Receiving Aid: 69%
• Percentage of New Students Receiving Types of Aid
  • Grants: 47%
  • Loans: 44%
• Average Amount of Aid
  • Grants: $9,243
  • Loans: $6,480

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• First Year Student Retention (full-time students): 90%
• Transfer Out Rate: 22%
• 4-Year Graduation Rate: 38%
• 6-Year Graduation Rate: 68%

Discovery: Grounded in the most advanced theoretical, empirical, and applied methods, the University’s programs of research, scholarship, and creative endeavor expand the realm of knowledge across a wide range of academic disciplines.

Learning through dissemination and preservation: The University promotes and champions learning by providing a variety of instructional settings where students and faculty can share and create new knowledge. It distributes knowledge to an audience of peers and citizens through a great diversity of academic literature and professional activities. In its libraries and other archives, the University serves as the repository and facilitator of access to a rich accumulation of human information, knowledge, and wisdom.

Engagement through exchange: Through its programs of knowledge exchange and application, the University helps put knowledge to work to create new opportunities that advance our society and solve a variety of technical and social problems.

from http://www.purdue.edu/strategic_plan/pages/westlafayette/wl_mission.html