Editing Purdue University (section)

=== Undergraduate admissions ===
{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2024
|admit rate        = 49.8%
|admit rate change = -10.0
|yield rate        = 29.1
|yield rate change = +4.6
|SAT Total         = 1210–1470<br />(among 75% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 27–34<br />(among 35% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|ACT change        = 
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="FallEnrollmentReport">{{cite web |url= https://admissions.purdue.edu/academics/freshmanprofile.php|title=Purdue University Freshman class profile 2024
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref>
}}

Purdue University is ranked 43rd in the annual ranking of 2024 U.S. News & World Report. The 2022 annual ranking of ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' categorizes Purdue University-West Lafayette as "more selective".<ref>{{cite web |title=Purdue University--West Lafayette |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/purdue-university-west-lafayette-1825 |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref> For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), Purdue received 59,173 applications and accepted 40,759 (68.9%). Of those accepted, 10,157 enrolled, a [[Yield (college admissions)|yield rate]] (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 24.9%. Purdue's freshman [[University student retention|retention rate]] is 92%, with 81.5% going on to graduate within six years.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />

The university started test-optional admissions with the Fall 2021 incoming class in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has extended this through Fall 2023. Of the 62% of the incoming freshman class who submitted [[SAT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1190–1430.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /> Of the 31% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted [[ACT (test)|ACT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 26 and 33.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />

Purdue University is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 88 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 127 freshman students were [[National Merit Scholars]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf|title=National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2019-20 Annual Report|publisher=National Merit Scholarship Corporation|access-date=December 7, 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px;"
|+ Fall first-time freshman statistics<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2024-2025.pdf |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2024-2025
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2023_2024.pdf |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2023-2024
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2022-2023.pdf |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2022-2023
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref><ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2020-2021.pdf |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2020-2021
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2019-2020.xlsx |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2019-2020
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2018-2019.xlsx |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2018-2019
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2017-2018.xlsx |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2017-2018
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/idata/documents/CDS/CDS_2016-2017.xlsx |title=Purdue University Common Data Set 2016-2017
 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref>
|-
! 
!2024
!2023
!2022
! 2021 !! 2020 !! 2019 !! 2018 !! 2017 !! 2016
|-
! Applicants
|78,526
|72,800
|68,309
| 59,173 || 57,279 || 54,912 || 53,439 || 48,912 || 48,775
|-
! Admits
|39,096
|36,602
|35,995
| 40,759 || 38,457 || 32,834 || 30,965 || 28,092 || 27,226
|-
! Admit rate
|49.8
|50.3
|52.7
| 68.9 || 67.1 || 59.8 || 57.9 || 57.4 || 55.8
|-
! Enrolled
|11,388
|9,206
|9,354
| 10,157 || 8,869 || 8,056 || 8,357 || 7,566 || 7,242
|-
! Yield rate
|29.1
|25.2
|25.9
| 24.9 || 23.1 || 24.5 || 27.0 || 26.9 || 26.6
|-
! ACT composite*<br /><small>(out of 36)</small>
|27–34<br /><small>(25%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|27–34<br /><small>(24%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|27–34<br /><small>(29%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 26–33<br /><small>(31%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25–33<br /><small>(46%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25–32<br /><small>(50%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25–32<br /><small>(51%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25–31<br /><small>(60%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25–31<br /><small>(62%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|- 
! SAT composite*<br /><small>(out of 1600)</small>
|1210–1470<br /><small>(79%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|1210–1450<br /><small>(73%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
|1210–1450<br /><small>(67%<sup>†</sup>)</small>
| 1190–1430<br /><small>(62%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1190–1430<br /><small>(82%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1190–1440<br /><small>(82%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1180–1410<br /><small>(76%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1150–1380<br /><small>(69%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || {{sdash}}
|-
| colspan="10" | * middle 50% range<br /> <sup>†</sup> percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit
|}

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