Purdue University - Main Campus

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Average Annual Cost

The average annual net price that a student who receives federal financial aid pays to cover expenses (e.g. tuition, living expenses, etc.) to attend the school's largest program. Net price is the program's cost of attendance minus any grants and scholarships received. For public schools, this is only the average cost for in-state students. Negative cost values indicate that the average grant/scholarship aid exceeded the cost of attendance.

Est. Student Population

Healthcare Programs

About Purdue University - Main Campus

The main campus of Purdue University is located in West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University began offering classes in 1874 to a total of 39 students. Today, 59% of the university's graduates finish school with no student loan debt. The university offers a variety of degree programs to its students.

Purdue University - Main Campus offers the following healthcare-related courses:

Nursing

Students in the Nursing program at Purdue University - Main Campus will become adept at the skills needed to take the NCLEX-RN exam and practice as a registered nurse. The program lasts a total of four years, with three years of clinical placements.

Recent news about Purdue University - Main Campus

Purdue University Galleries launches new permanent collection website

Purdue University Galleries has launched a new website that will include entries of each of the school’s over 6,000 pieces of art in its permanent collection.

October 7, 2024
Purdue University professor receives grant for food waste study

The College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics was awarded $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture for Professor Brenna Ellison’s research.

July 2, 2024
Purdue University partners with Elanco Animal Health Inc. to form One Health Innovation District

The partnership was established on May 23 via memorandum of understanding and will involve creating a shared-use space to focus on improving human, animal, and plant health.

May 28, 2024
Purdue University deemed safest campus in the country by Academic Influence

Academic Influence is an analytics organization that ranked college campuses in the United States based on a number of factors. Purdue University came out on top, followed by the University of Idaho and Brigham Young University-Idaho.

March 18, 2024
Purdue University partners up with Ivy Tech Community College with Green2Gold program

Green2Gold will combine an associate degree in engineering from Ivy Tech and a bachelor degree in engineering from Purdue.

February 6, 2024
Lilly Endowment gifts Purdue University $25 million in grant funding

The funding comes as part of Lilly Endowment’s College and Community Collaboration initiative.

December 21, 2023
Purdue University boasts high rankings in the new 2023-24 U.S. News and World Report rankings

Many of the various STEM programs at Purdue University maintained high rankings or rose in their ranks after the release of the new U.S. News and World Report national graduate school rankings.

May 2, 2023
Arvind Raman named new John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University

After an exhaustive search, Purdue University has chosen Arvind Raman as the new John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. He has been with the school for many years, most recently as the executive associate dean of engineering.

February 7, 2023
Purdue University sees record freshman enrollment numbers, survey points to pandemic response as a key driving factor

A survey conducted of incoming freshmen at Purdue University shows that the university's pandemic response, along with tuition rates and national academic prominence, are behind the surge of enrollees.

October 4, 2021
Purdue University associate professor studying images of Mars taken with camera she helped design

Dr. Briony Horgan of Purdue University's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences helped to create one of the camera systems used on NASA's Perseverance Rover and is now part of the team collecting and analyzing data from the images collected.

April 14, 2021
Purdue University announces research partnership with Lockheed Martin

The agreement between Lockheed Martin and Purdue will focus on hypersonics research and will deepen the long-standing relationship between the two parties.

January 27, 2021
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