{"id":9267,"date":"2024-09-09T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=9267"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:57:57","slug":"purdue-applicant-number-and-yield-rate-at-unprecedented-levels-demand-for-purdue-undergraduate-and-graduate-education-sets-new-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q3\/purdue-applicant-number-and-yield-rate-at-unprecedented-levels-demand-for-purdue-undergraduate-and-graduate-education-sets-new-records","title":{"rendered":"Applicant numbers set record across BS, MS, PhD levels, with most selective incoming class and highest graduation rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Purdue University\u2019s laser focus on excellence and affordability once again has translated into record enrollment numbers for the fall 2024 semester, as increasing demand for a Purdue education set new records in applicant numbers and produced a yield rate \u2014 of prospective new students accepting their offers \u2014 significantly higher than it has been in a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enrollment of new undergraduate students across both locations of Purdue\u2019s main campus can be highlighted through three numbers, the multiplication of which leads to the enrollment number. Applicant numbers and yield rate reflect how students make their choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applicant numbers: set a record at 78,526<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admission rate: a record low at 49.8%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yield rate (post \u201csummer melt\u201d): surprisingly higher than the 10-year trend at 29.1% and the highest since the use of Common App<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-1024x274.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9304\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-1024x274.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-1536x411.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/24EnrollmentTable-2048x548.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Purdue\u2019s total enrollment for West Lafayette and Indianapolis locations is 58,009. That figure includes 10,628 new-beginner students in West Lafayette campus plus 760 new-beginner students in Indianapolis, an expansion of Purdue\u2019s main campus launched this fall in the state\u2019s capital city after IUPUI was dissolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024EnrollmentIndy.jpg\" alt=\"Students on Indianapolis campus\" class=\"wp-image-9269\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024EnrollmentIndy.jpg 876w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024EnrollmentIndy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/2024EnrollmentIndy-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purdue University\u2019s record enrollment for West Lafayette and Indianapolis locations reached 58,009, a figure that includes 10,628 new-beginner undergraduate students at West Lafayette and 760 new-beginner undergraduate students in Indianapolis. (Purdue University photo\/Kelsey Lefever)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Provost Patrick Wolfe said, \u201cWe are incredibly proud to see our decade-long trend of unprecedented demand for a Purdue education accelerate \u2014 with our most selective and most qualified incoming class ever \u2014 and, crucially, establish itself rapidly at our new Indianapolis location.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key driver for the record enrollment: This fall\u2019s class of undergraduate students in West Lafayette and Indianapolis was selected at an admission rate of 49.8% from a record-setting pool of 78,526 applicants, with a significantly higher-than-historical (post \u201csummer melt\u201d) yield rate of 29.1%. Purdue will take into account the historic jump in yield rate and reduce the admission rate further next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the numbers, the total head count for fall 2024 includes a record 44,170 undergraduates at both West Lafayette and Indianapolis from all 50 states and over 120 countries. The number of underrepresented minorities increased by 614 students this year, representing 12.5% of the undergraduate population. Total head count also includes 12,917 graduate students, the most ever, pursuing advanced degrees \u2014 up 51% over the past decade. Another 922 students are pursuing professional degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExcellence at scale is truly reflected in our bright and motivated students who have chosen this university for their undergraduate and graduate studies,\u201d Purdue President Mung Chiang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Indiana resident applicants, 74% were offered admission to Purdue\u2019s main campus this year, compared to 45% for out-of-state applicants, and most other in-state applicants received offers of admission elsewhere within the Purdue system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPurdue is serving the most Indiana students in our history, with students from every Indiana county enrolled,\u201d said Cherise Hall, vice provost for enrollment management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total enrollment (both undergraduate and graduate students) includes 1,619 Black or African American students and 4,032 Hispanic students \u2014 both numbers the highest in at least 15 years. The racial diversity of new students from Indiana is also higher than it has been for at least 15 years, with a higher number of Indiana residents who are Black (897) and Hispanic (1,903).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seventy-one percent of undergraduate applications came from Purdue\u2019s College of Engineering (28,134), College of Science (18,912) and the newly reimagined Mitch Daniels School of Business (8,322).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purdue\u2019s record graduate enrollment includes over 5,584 residential PhD students across 89 areas of study, more than 3,400 master\u2019s students enrolled through Purdue University Online and nearly 3,200 residential master\u2019s students, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With affordability and accessibility at the forefront of its mission and buoyed by nearly a decade of record enrollment totals, Purdue has kept tuition at $9,992 per year for Indiana residents and $28,794 for out-of-state students for 12 consecutive years since 2012-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The average SAT score for students accepted this fall was 1,328, also an all-time high, while the average beginning-student GPA was 3.76, just slightly below the 3.78 average GPA posted in fall 2023, which was that measure\u2019s highest mark in 15 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Purdue systemwide enrollment<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Polytechnic statewide: 550. Purdue Polytechnic Institute degrees are offered in Anderson, Columbus, Indianapolis International Airport, Kokomo, Subaru Manufacturing Campus, New Albany, Richmond, South Bend and Vincennes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Additionally, fall 2024 enrollment (undergraduate, graduate and online) reached 6,536 at Purdue Northwest and 6,284 at Purdue Fort Wayne.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fu7061146.ct.sendgrid.net%2Fls%2Fclick%3Fupn%3D4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUQHG3uQ0RiZihO1RUoI109ZqM-2B5cr0chzg1q-2FRGKQYnm1MDSkTeOQPjDS6UUBOHqdNS2D9qHa-2B-2Fakgfh3BgiG1olA1XOCAOCNGKeh3E7RoigSI0MAtgRbVdN0TdYHxF2xGzhj0Wus1LDD3ouS-2BeI1GzZf8EM4BwmxH67Tvy3gGAjVObx-2BxOnONJ3HVTiib2eNA-3D-3DkF13_vmKvHrnFKuGl7W-2FHOWKX0BOfF-2FyHBLwbvk22IUFcWDgXf-2FvkcsS-2B69QwQlnIdCv7BzsASG0o-2FmghNXV0812RueaSxB4WZ4I-2BVrHXxBWJxarJIgdZR7dfqtHROOMaotjtbAxWh54Yf5YozjIAHhu13O4RfjkTXeZH7HN3JZlrA0XwwkWbTq9-2FqmTvLis5DT1N1VyWKIbgPZ54xGZ7vMEqY7SnZUuNad2u2UyJQUSMe-2BlDaOAgAHABHiJqJ-2BKtzZm-2BKkvOMnQYpExcVy-2Brt70tBTF-2BjARd6UokgwDdENhswvkmxGwuItEjcltGpHJpKwojnOShIbLSLKgjRDpSyuwqNapavpA1iwLD6Nrml-2FMGAY4-3D&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cpfiorini%40purdue.edu%7C94de61dbd3a4434b6e7b08dbb51c92a2%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638302906563163159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ki1MHdtPaEbvWfobEu4vQNLik4tBJTKcdnJJ2r5hhs8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purdue Global<\/a>, the university\u2019s accredited and affordable online solution designed for the working adult with life experience, reported an enrollment of 36,122 for September 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Total enrollment for the Purdue system is at a record 107,501 students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n    <div  class=\"purdue-home-quick-links-static \">\n        <div class=\"tagged-header-container\">\n\n            <h2 class=\"tagged-header\"><span>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<\/span><\/h2>\n        \n        <\/div>\n\n       <ul class=\"quick-links-content\">\n                                        <li class=\"quick-link__item\">\n                                                                <a class=\"quick-link__link\"\n                                    href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/datadigest\/?utm_source=cision&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=unsuns&amp;utm_campaign=230914chiangrecordenrollmentfall2023p\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                    Purdue Data Digest                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                                                <li class=\"quick-link__item\">\n                                                                <a class=\"quick-link__link\"\n                                    href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q3\/purdue-welcomes-its-most-selective-incoming-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                    2023: Purdue welcomes its most selective incoming class                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n                            <\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About Purdue University<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Purdue University is a public research institution demonstrating excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities and with two colleges in the top four 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, including nearly 50,000 in person on the West Lafayette campus. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 13 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap \u2014 including its first comprehensive urban campus in Indianapolis, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative \u2014 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:<\/strong> Trevor Peters,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:peter237@purdue.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>peter237@purdue.edu<\/strong><\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Purdue University\u2019s laser focus on excellence and affordability once again has translated into record enrollment numbers for the fall 2024 semester, as increasing demand for a Purdue education set new records in applicant numbers and produced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[243],"class_list":["post-9267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17289,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9267\/revisions\/17289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=9267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}