by our College Data Analytics Team
In its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Purdue University Global was awarded 131 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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College Factual ranked Purdue University Global as #284 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Purdue University Global held the #417 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Purdue University Global also holds the #8 spot on the Best Colleges in Indiana ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Purdue University Global, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Purdue University Global, this rate is 26 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Purdue University Global is 18%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 17% rate at Purdue University Global is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at Purdue University Global is 14%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Purdue University Global.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 33,192 undergraduates at Purdue University Global with 5,438 being full-time and 27,754 being part-time.
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Purdue University Global, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Purdue University Global, approximately 40% of students took out student loans averaging $3,883 a year. That adds up to $15,532 over four years for those students.
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Get more details about the location of Purdue University Global.
Contact details for Purdue University Global are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 2550 Northwestern Avenue, Suite 1100, West Lafayette, IN 47906 |
| Phone: | 866-522-7747 |
| Website: | https://www.purdueglobal.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 3,371 | $57,308 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 1,290 | $47,603 |
| Health Sciences & Services | 1,226 | $41,104 |
| Nursing | 983 | $78,468 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 905 | $45,984 |
| Information Technology | 821 | $61,344 |
| Other Computer & Information Sciences | 752 | NA |
| Behavioral Science | 740 | NA |
| Accounting | 619 | $51,355 |
| Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services | 513 | $37,107 |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2022-2023, 45,125 students took at least one online class at Purdue University Global. This is an increase from the 43,458 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 45,125 | 45,007 |
| 2021-2022 | 43,458 | 43,294 |
| 2020-2021 | 43,927 | 43,927 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,498 | 1,498 |
Learn more about online learning at Purdue University Global.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
References
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