How this school serves students from different economic backgrounds, including Pell students, first-generation pathways, and long-term mobility outcomes.
Purdue University-Main Campus admits about 49.9% of applicants. Among admitted students who submitted scores, the middle 50% scored between 1,200 and 1,480 on the SAT or between 27 and 34 on the ACT (interquartile range). Among enrolled undergraduates, 13.0% receive Pell Grants and 18.5% are first-generation college students. Transfer enrollment stands at 22.1% of the student body. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #322 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. That position reflects the institution's moderately selective admissions profile alongside a Pell share that, while meaningful, is narrower than at broad-access public universities serving larger shares of low-income students. For graduates from low-income backgrounds, median earnings reach $59,700 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing Purdue University-Main Campus in the 86.1 percentile for low-income graduate earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 83.1%, with 74.3% of Pell-eligible students completing within the same window — a signal that students from lower-income backgrounds who enroll at Purdue complete at strong rates. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #75 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. That mobility standing is driven in large part by Purdue's engineering-dominant program mix, which channels a substantial share of graduates into high-earning, high-mobility careers in technology, manufacturing, and applied sciences. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes at scale notes, the gap between what a school's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on combined access-and-mobility rankings — and for Purdue, strong per-student outcomes are the primary driver rather than breadth of low-income enrollment.
Purdue University-Main Campus admits about 49.9% of applicants. Among admitted students who submitted scores, the middle 50% scored between 1,200 and 1,480 on the SAT or between 27 and 34 on the ACT (interquartile range). Among enrolled undergraduates, 13.0% receive Pell Grants and 18.5% are first-generation college students. Transfer enrollment stands at 22.1% of the student body. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #322 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. That position reflects the institution's moderately selective admissions profile alongside a Pell share that, while meaningful, is narrower than at broad-access public universities serving larger shares of low-income students. For graduates from low-income backgrounds, median earnings reach $59,700 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing Purdue University-Main Campus in the 86.1 percentile for low-income graduate earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 83.1%, with 74.3% of Pell-eligible students completing within the same window — a signal that students from lower-income backgrounds who enroll at Purdue complete at strong rates. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #75 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. That mobility standing is driven in large part by Purdue's engineering-dominant program mix, which channels a substantial share of graduates into high-earning, high-mobility careers in technology, manufacturing, and applied sciences. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes at scale notes, the gap between what a school's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on combined access-and-mobility rankings — and for Purdue, strong per-student outcomes are the primary driver rather than breadth of low-income enrollment.
Purdue University-Main Campus admits about 49.9% of applicants. Among admitted students who submitted scores, the middle 50% scored between 1,200 and 1,480 on the SAT or between 27 and 34 on the ACT (interquartile range). Among enrolled undergraduates, 13.0% receive Pell Grants and 18.5% are first-generation college students. Transfer enrollment stands at 22.1% of the student body. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #322 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions. That position reflects the institution's moderately selective admissions profile alongside a Pell share that, while meaningful, is narrower than at broad-access public universities serving larger shares of low-income students. For graduates from low-income backgrounds, median earnings reach $59,700 on a historical 10-year Scorecard measure, placing Purdue University-Main Campus in the 86.1 percentile for low-income graduate earnings among nonprofit four-year institutions. The six-year graduation rate is 83.1%, with 74.3% of Pell-eligible students completing within the same window — a signal that students from lower-income backgrounds who enroll at Purdue complete at strong rates. Azimuth ranks Purdue University-Main Campus #75 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. That mobility standing is driven in large part by Purdue's engineering-dominant program mix, which channels a substantial share of graduates into high-earning, high-mobility careers in technology, manufacturing, and applied sciences. As Azimuth's analysis of access versus outcomes at scale notes, the gap between what a school's outcomes show it could deliver for mobility and what its admission volume actually delivers is the structural constraint on combined access-and-mobility rankings — and for Purdue, strong per-student outcomes are the primary driver rather than breadth of low-income enrollment.
