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Purdue University

Public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

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academic calendar type
admission rate
  • 0.67 point in time: 2020
admission yield rate
  • 0.23 point in time: 2020
affiliation
athletics program
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
category for alumni of educational institution
category for employees of the organization
child organization or unit
Commons category
  • Purdue University
coordinate location
  • 40.4250, -86.9231
count of students
  • 40,090
  • 59,034 applies to part: full-time equivalent; point in time: 1 September 2021
country
described by source
different from
employees
  • 11,369 point in time: September 2020
endowment
  • 3,675,959,522 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2022
  • 3,584,828,729 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2021
founder
image
inception
  • 1869
instance of
language used
located in the administrative territorial entity
logo image
member of
native label
  • Purdue University
official name
  • Purdue University
official website
owner of
parent organization or unit
postal code
  • 47907-2040
published in
ranking
  • 72 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2019
  • 70 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2018
  • 77 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2017
  • 63 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2016
  • 61 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2015
  • 60 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2014
  • 57 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2013
  • 56 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2012
  • 69 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2010
  • 61 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2011
  • 65 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2008
  • 80 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2003
  • 71 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2004
  • 75 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2005
  • 73 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2006
  • 68 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2007
  • 79 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2020
  • 86 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2021
  • 83 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2022
  • 96 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2023
  • 100 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2024
  • 116 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022
  • 99 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2024
  • 129 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2023
  • 95 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012
  • 99 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014
  • 102 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015
  • 89 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016
  • 92 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017
  • 105 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018
  • 100 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019
  • 111 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020
  • 109 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021
  • 89 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2025
  • 88 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2026
significant event
social media followers
  • 106,053 point in time: 6 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16134525
  • 102,842 point in time: 14 April 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16134525
  • 112,153 point in time: 21 February 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16134525
  • 269,829 point in time: 27 July 2022; Facebook username: PurdueUniversity
  • 124,831 point in time: 27 July 2022; Instagram username: lifeatpurdue
  • 460,600 point in time: 27 July 2022; LinkedIn company or organization ID: purdue-university
  • 121,437 point in time: 7 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16134525
  • 60,618 point in time: 24 May 2023; subreddit: purdue
  • 23 point in time: 12 February 2024; point in time: 16 March 2024; point in time: 11 April 2024; Mastodon address: lifeatpurdue@mastodon.social
street address
  • Hovde Hall of Administration, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2040
topic's main category

Identifiers in other databases

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ACM Digital Library institution ID
ARCHON code
  • 1374 subject named as: Purdue University Libraries, Special Collections
ARK Name Assigning Authority Number
ARWU university ID
autonomous system number
Baidu Tieba name
  • 普渡大学 point in time: 6 May 2023; number of works: 94,037
BHL creator ID
  • 40722 subject named as: Purdue University.
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
  • 12386811x subject named as: Purdue university (West Lafayette, Ind.)
BIBSYS ID
  • 90239819 subject named as: Purdue University
Canadiana Name Authority ID
CiNii Research ID
Crunchbase organization ID
Delfi.ee topic ID
domain name
ELMCIP ID
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
ERR keyword ID
Facebook username
  • PurdueUniversity has characteristic: verified account or profile; subject named as: Purdue University
Freebase ID
GeoNames ID
GND ID
  • 2528-8 subject named as: Purdue University
Google Maps Customer ID
Google Scholar organization ID
GRID ID
IdRef ID
  • 032937628 subject named as: Purdue university (West Lafayette, Ind.)
IDU foreign theatre ID
iNaturalist place ID
Instagram username
  • lifeatpurdue has characteristic: verified account or profile; subject named as: Purdue University
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
ISNI
J9U entity ID
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
Libraries Australia ID
  • 35898675 subject named as: Purdue University
Library of Congress Authorities ID
  • n79089817 subject named as: Purdue University; alternative name: Indiana. Purdue University; alternative name: Universidade de Purdue; alternative name: Danishgāh-i Pirdū
LibraryThing author ID
LinkedIn company or organization ID
Mastodon address
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
MusicBrainz place ID
NACSIS-CAT author ID
National Library of Ireland ID
National Library of Korea ID
National Library of Poland MMS ID
  • 9810678074905606 subject named as: Purdue University; alternative name: Universidade de Purdue
NL CR AUT ID
NLA Trove people ID
  • 1137116 subject named as: Purdue University
NUKAT ID
Open Funder Registry funder ID
OpenAlex ID
openMLOL author ID
OpenStreetMap relation ID
Pinterest username
  • lifeatpurdue has characteristic: verified account or profile; subject named as: Purdue University
QS World University ID
Quora topic ID
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)
RERO ID (legacy)
Ringgold ID
ROR ID
SCImago Institutions Rankings ID
SEVIS school ID
SHARE Catalogue author ID
SNAC ARK ID
Snapchat username
  • lifeatpurdue has characteristic: verified account or profile; subject named as: Purdue University
SNARC ID
subreddit
  • Purdue language of work or name: English; start time: 22 November 2008; point in time: 24 May 2023; subject named as: Welcome to Purdue!
Times Higher Education World University ID
U-Multirank university ID
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
  • 65563 subject named as: Purdue University
Union List of Artist Names ID
  • 500311703 subject named as: Purdue University
VIAF cluster ID
Wellcome Collection concept ID
X (Twitter) username
  • lifeatpurdue start time: 4 September 2008; point in time: 14 April 2020; has characteristic: verified account or profile; number of subscribers: 102,842; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 16134525
  • LifeAtPurdue
YouTube channel ID
  • UCOSY-LKMuJZn4HGsJZHfQDw start time: 21 September 2006; point in time: 18 June 2026; subject named as: Purdue University; YouTube handle: purdueuniversity
Zhihu topic ID
  • 20005377 subject named as: 普渡大学 (Purdue University)
‎Scilit organization ID
‎Yale LUX ID