Student Population at Purdue University-Main Campus

Purdue University-Main Campus has a total of 51,528 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 38,593 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 12,935 students joined graduate programs.

By race/ethnicity, 28,700 White, 1,364 Black, and 5,754 Asian students out of a total of 51,528 are attending at Purdue University-Main Campus. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

By age, PU has 342 students under 18 years old and 26 students over 65 years old. There are 41,678 students under 25 years old, and 9,850 students over 25 years old out of 51,528 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 342 students are younger than 18 and 10 students are older than 65. PU has 37,522 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,071 students aged 25 and over.

It has 4,156 graduate students aged under 25 and 8,779 students aged 25 and over.

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At Purdue University-Main Campus, 4,437 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 13,394 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,090 students lived in Indiana or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 3,347 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Among 38,593 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 1,042 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 2.70%.869 students have transferred in as full-time status and 173 students transferred in as part-time status.