Purdue University is a famous science and engineering school, and its engineering school ranks among the top in the world. Together with MIT and Stanford University, it occupies the top ten engineering projects in the United States. The century project Hoover Dam and Golden Gate Bridge were both created by Purdue University teachers and students. In science, Purdue has trained 13 Nobel Prize winners.

Deng Jiaxian, the founder of China Two Bombs, Liang, the first generation rocket expert, Chen and Wang Buxuan, the founders of thermal energy engineering, all graduated here. The rich accumulation of science and engineering has made Purdue one of the few universities without medical schools and law schools, and its comprehensive strength still ranks among the top 100 universities in the world.

In the aerospace field, Purdue University is known as the "mother of American space", which is not only the first university in the United States with its own airport, but also the university that has trained the most American astronauts. Armstrong, the first man to land on the moon in the world, and eugene cernan, the last man to land on the moon at present, both graduated here, and more than 65,438+0/3 of NASA missions have Purdue alumni.

Purdue University founded the first computer science department in American universities on 1962, and has been ranked in the top 20 in the United States. Wiki, pattern recognition and remote control technology were born here, and it has the fastest supercomputer in American universities. In addition, Purdue University's College of Agriculture, College of Pharmacy, College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Technology are among the top ten in the United States.