Office of Undergraduate Research

Reporting of Undergraduate Research (UR) Experiences

This page is being updated based on an overhaul of the OUR's reporting for ADA compliance and new uses of institutional data fields/values. Reports will be added to this site as established in their new version, with full rebuild ready by August 2026.

Please direct your questions, suggestions, or interim reporting needs to UGResearch@purdue.edu.

Reports and dashboards created by the Office of Undergraduate Research are available to the public (or Purdue community with login) as listed below. If extracting any reported information for other purposes, please use the citation listed in the report/dashboard.

Institutional Impacts (new version coming soon!)

Summarizes longitudinal key metrics from all tracked UR experiences since fall 2018.

UR Definitions

This site and a corresponding OUR white paper summarize definitions related to UR, including:

  • General definitions
  • People who engage in UR 
  • Categories of UR 
  • Models of UR 

UR and Retention (new version coming soon!)

  • Access:  All academic deans and their delegates. (Do you need access for a clear business purpose? Send an email to the OUR to request permission to access reports.)  
  • Limitations: This report based on the same dataset used to create the institutional Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates dashboard. Hence, cases are excluded for students who did not appear in the dataset.

These summaries provide key UR metrics for engagement in undergraduate research, for Purdue academic divisions or departments. Refer to the OUR white paper Defining Undergraduate Research at Purdue University West Lafayette: Process, Outcomes, and Implications for a description of how division and department values are determined.

Reporting by Division (new version coming soon!)

  • Access:  All academic deans and their delegates. (Do you need access for a clear business purpose? Send an email to your dean to request their permission to access reports.)  
  • Limitations: 
    • If there is no corresponding academic or employment record for the term a UR experience occurred, then we will look back one term for this information.
    • Cases with no term-specific division, or the division is outside the scope of academic division, will not appear in any reporting by division.
  • Reporting Conflict: Since a person could have more than one division, the same person can appear in multiple reports by division. Hence, it is inaccurate to create a sum of divisional counts and treat that as an institutional sum. 

Reporting by Department (new version coming soon!)

    • Access:  All academic deans and their delegates. (Do you need access for a clear business purpose? Send an email to your dean to request their permission to access reports.)  
    • Limitations: 
      • If there is no corresponding academic or employment record for the term a UR experience occurred, then we will look back one term for this information.
      • Cases with no term-specific department, or the departments outside the scope of academic division, will not appear in any reporting by department.
      • Departmental reporting is complicated by changes in department names, merging/separation of departments, and inconsistent naming of departments between academic and employment data sources. Departmental reporting will only appear if a unit representative works with the OUR to resolve these complications.
    • Reporting Conflict: Since a person could have more than one department, the same person can appear in multiple reports by department. Hence, it is inaccurate to create a sum of departmental counts and treat that as a divisional or institutional sum. 

Purdue undergraduate researchers present their work to the Purdue community through events hosted each semester by the Office of Undergraduate Research. Events offered since Fall 2018 include:

  • Fall Undergraduate Research Expo
  • Spring Undergraduate Research Conference
  • Spring Innovation & Excellence Showcase in Indianapolis (est. Spring 2025)
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

Longitudinal Report

Summarizes key metrics from all events between fall 2018 and the most recent event.

  • Access: Any person with a current, valid Purdue login.
  • Limitations: Reporting based on information provided within conference applications. Some fields/values not reported due to changes in application content or missing information.  

Reporting by Event & Year 

For the events offered since fall 2023, these reports provide greater details of key metrics for each event, or for all events within an academic year.

  • Access: Any person with a current, valid Purdue login.
  • Limitations: Reporting based on information provided within conference applications. Some fields/values not reported due to changes in application content or missing information.  

Judging Results/Feedback (for review by Presenters & Mentors only)

Designed to facilitate the dissemination of judging results and feedback for events occurring since summer 2025. Reporting is based on the login, and for any instances that login appears as either a student presenter or a mentor for a presentation.

  • Access: Any person with a current, valid Purdue login. 
  • Limitations: Access based on information provided during conference applications, and some invalid e-mails were provided. Only Purdue e-mails matching the login will show reporting. (Not working e-mails include: invalid e-mails, Purdue vanity e-mails, and any e-mail based on a domain other than @purdue.edu.) 
  • Archive: From spring 2019 to spring 2025, different evaluation criteria were used and these results are no longer available.