This semester, University Residences is housing nearly 16,000 students, the largest on-campus population ever.
Purdue Dining & Culinary recently celebrated the eighth year of Jump Start, an early orientation program for student employees that focuses on building leadership skills.
Purdue Convocations’ 2023-24 season kicks off this month with two events, West Lafayette Global Fest and Grandmaster Flash.
Purdue Convocations recently announced their 2023-24 season, which includes performances such as Hairspray, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Shrek the Musical and Grandmaster Flash.
The Caduceus Club student organization helps future medical school students gain hands-on healthcare experience through service with non-profit organizations.
Niche.com ranked Purdue's student life 95th best out of over 3,800 colleges and universities.
The Boiler Support Network, a student organization founded in 2021, hosts peer support groups and promotes well-being of students.
Student interns Karla Alvarado and Taylor Thomas
recently won ADDY Awards from the American Advertising Foundation for their creative work with Student Life Marketing.
Phi Gamma Delta's class of 1975 recently funded the construction of
Friendship Grove near West Stadium Drive, a shaded location to promote socializing outdoors and well-being.
More than 70% of students who returned to
University Residences cited hall community as an important aspect of their decision to return to campus.
81% of new students became involved in at least one campus activity or student organization in their first six weeks on campus.
Daniel Pierce currently mentors students as a Senior
Faculty Fellow in McCutcheon Hall, the same residence hall he lived in as a freshman in 2000.
University Residences is currently housing nearly 15,900 students, its largest ever on-campus population.
New student employees for
Purdue Dining & Culinary recently participated in
Jump Start, the seventh year the department has hosted the early orientation program that focuses on building leadership skills.
73% of Purdue students utilized
RecWell during the 2021-22 academic year with a total of over 1.2 million individual visits.
RecWell has a variety of financial-based workshops planned for the Fall semester, helping students learn about budgeting, building credit and managing debt.
Niche.com ranked Purdue's student life as 96th best out of over 1,600 universities for 2022.
Over 56% of Purdue students are actively involved in one
student organization while more than 28% are involved in multiple.
Over the past five years, underrepresented minority (URM) students involved in Fraternity, Sorority and Cooperative Life were more likely to remain at Purdue for their sophomore year than the Purdue URM average, 94.3% to 89.6%.
A new student organization,
Steps to Leaps Students, was created to help students develop in the five pillars of impact, well-being, leadership, networks and grit.
Purdue's Office of Civic Engagement recently commemorated the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service with community partner United Way of Greater Lafayette.
The Purdue Jazz Band will recognize Valentine's Day with a 1940s Big Band style "Evening of Romance" concert in Marriott Hall.
Purdue RecWell is offering free Group X fitness courses during the Spring 2022 semester.
From 2016-2021, Fraternity, Sorority and Cooperative Life organizations performed on average more than 35,000 hours of community service each semester and raised on average over $400,000 per semester for philanthropies.
Students participating in Club Sports, competitive student sport organizations, consistently have GPAs and retention rates higher than the Purdue average.