The following land acknowledgement was written by our Native American Educational and Cultural Center. "The NAECC acknowledges the traditional homelands of the Indigenous People which Purdue University is built upon. We honor and appreciate the Bodéwadmik (Potawatomi), Lenape (Delaware), Myaamia (Miami) and Shawnee People who are the original Indigenous caretakers."
Purdue Universitywas founded in 1869 under the Morrill Act of 1862. John Purdue, a local merchant, gave $150,000 to begin the University. Tippecanoe County gave $50,000 and local residents gave 100 acres for the new university. The Indiana State Legislature agreed to name the new school Purdue in gratitude to its largest benefactor. The new university began classes on September 16, 1874, with six instructors and 39 students.
Currently, Purdue University has enrollment of over 102,000 students studying across our global programs with over 50,000 in our West Lafayette program. Approximately 2,000 faculty and staff serve our students across our 11 colleges and school and there are over 400 research labs.For more than a quarter century, Purdue University has been the largest or second largest in undergraduate engineering enrollment in the country.The University's decentralized 14 library system contains over 2.3 million volumes of information, including a substantial psychology library that has merged with the humanities, social sciences and education library located in Stewart Center. Furthermore, Purdue takes pride in the fact that our main campus has had a tuition freeze for the last 12 years showing Purdue's commitment to affordability and accessibility.To learn more about Purdue's next giant leaps, please visitour Purdue University in the News page.
Purdue University is committed to fostering and maintaining an inclusive community that values the inherent worth and value of every person. A few notable policies highlight this commitment and are found below.
