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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. At No. 43 overall among 435 universities ranked in the country, Purdue captured its best-ever undergraduate ranking by U.S. News & World Report as it improved its position from No. 51 last year.

The 2024U.S. Newsrankings released Sept. 18 were calculated using 19 key measures of undergraduate academic quality for national universities. Each schools ranking factors were calculated and compared with the mean and standard deviation values of other schools to create a normalized score. In particular, Purdue earned high marks in percentage of full-time faculty, in reputation among peers, and in a new metric that measures graduates earning potential.Purdue's peer assessment score is ranked No. 35 in the U.S.Many undergraduate programs in terms of colleges and departments are also ranked nationally at the same time. U.S. News typically releases its graduate and research rankings every spring. Other international rankings have different methodologies and coverundergraduate, graduate and research all in one.

While any single ranking is bound to be noisy and partial, the latest U.S. News undergraduate ranking is yet another reflection of the hard work by our students, faculty and staff, said Purdue President Mung Chiang.Excellence at scale is measurable in many ways, one of which is how a broad range of metrics and peer assessments continues to move up for Purdues undergraduate programs.

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Purdue was also named the No. 7 Most Innovative university, as the new U.S. News & World Report undergraduate ranking extends Purdues streak to six consecutive years as a top 10 Most Innovative school in the nation.

Purdues renownedCollege of Engineeringmoved up one spot to No. 8 in collegewide undergraduate rankings(its 2023 graduate ranking was No. 4 in the U.S.), with departmentalrankingsup across the board totheirbest showing in decades.Seven departments are ranked among the top 10, with five of themimproving year over year and industrial and mechanical engineering remaining strong:

In the Department of Computer Science(joint across the College of Science and College of Engineering) which along with computer engineering is a part of thePurdue Computes initiativesoftware engineeringmoved up to No. 8. Thecybersecurityprogram in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute also moved up year over year, placing at No. 6.

The newly reimagined Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business jumped nine spots, placing at No. 21 among undergraduate business programs in the country. The Daniels School of Business also has three programs that either improved to join the top 10 or remained there:

Our consistent climb across a variety of national rankings reflects an enhanced focus on scholarly excellence, which further strengthens our land-grant mission,said Patrick J. Wolfe, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and diversity. Agility combined with excellence at scale is a critical driver of our continued success, and so were especially proud to be named one of Americas Most Innovative universities for the sixth year running.

This latest acclaim from U.S. News & World Report follows a list of accolades for the university over the past few months.

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research institution with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top 4 in the United States, Purdue discovers and disseminates knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 105,000 students study at Purdue across modalities and locations, with 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdues main campus has frozen tuition 12 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap, including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, and Purdue Computes, at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.

Writer/Media contact: Derek Schultz, dcschultz@purdue.edu

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