Editing Purdue University (section)

===Student body===
[[File:Purdue University graduation ceremony.jpg|thumb|right|Graduation ceremony in 2008]]

8,562 students from 126 countries around the world attended Purdue University in 2012.<ref name="Purdue University">{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg15.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624235005/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg15.html |archive-date=June 24, 2013 }}</ref> In 2012–13, 19,689 out of a total of 39,256 students enrolled were Indiana residents.<ref name="Purdue University"/> {{as of|2013}}, the racial diversity of the US-resident undergraduate student body was 5.7% [[Asian people|Asian]], 4.4% [[Hispanic]] or [[Latinos|Latino]], and 4.0% [[Black people|black]] or [[African American]].<ref name="ethnicity">{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg49_52.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201103332/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg49_52.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref> Of the undergraduate students, 42.6% were female.<ref name="gender">{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg47.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624235006/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg47.html |archive-date=June 24, 2013 }}</ref> Domestic minorities constitute a total of 10.8% in the graduate student body population<ref name="ethnicity"/> of which 37.3% are female.<ref name="gender"/> Twenty-two percent of the student body is international, representing 126 countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg54.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201105017/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/diversity/pg54.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref> In graduate and professional student population, non-Indiana residents occupy an overwhelming majority, about 75%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg13.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119115818/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg13.html |archive-date=January 19, 2013 }}</ref> Almost all undergraduates and about 70% of the graduate student population attend full-time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg11_12.html |title=Purdue University Data Digest 2012–13 |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=June 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201104315/http://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/students/pg11_12.html |archive-date=February 1, 2013 }}</ref> The school's selectivity for admissions is "more selective" by [[USNWR]]: approximately 49% of applicants are admitted.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/?dashboard=AppsAdmits |title=Purdue University Data Digest: Applications, Admits, and Matriculations |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=March 12, 2016 |archive-date=April 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404071754/https://www.purdue.edu/datadigest/?dashboard=AppsAdmits |url-status=live }}</ref>