2. Purdue University is a famous institution of higher learning in the United States, a first-class national university in the United States, an established institution in association of american universities, and a founding member of the top ten American leagues. Its main campus is located in West lafayette, Indiana, USA. The comprehensive strength of the school ranks among the best in the world and enjoys a high academic reputation. Purdue has ten colleges, among which engineering college, agricultural college, pharmaceutical college, technical college and veterinary college are among the top ten in the United States.
Purdue has a world-class engineering school. Together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and other schools, it has taken the top ten list of American engineering schools all the year round and ranked sixth in the latest ranking of engineering schools in US News and World Report. Academic ranking of world universities and Shanghai Jiaotong University have also ranked their engineering schools 10 as the first in the world for many times. There are more than 20 academicians of the American Academy of Engineering in the School of Engineering [3]? The famous Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam were both created by teachers and students of the Department of Civil Engineering. In science, Purdue has trained 13 Nobel Prize winners, and Deng Jiaxian, the founder of China Two Bombs, and Liang, a rocket expert, also graduated from this school.
Purdue founded the first computer science department in American universities in 1962, and has been in a leading position. Wiki, pattern recognition and remote control technology were born here, and it has the fastest supercomputer in American universities. Its agronomy is also excellent, ranking first in the United States and top ten in the world all the year round. In the aerospace field, Purdue is known as "the mother of American space". It 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 on the moon in the world, is a graduate of this school. In addition, Purdue has also done well in management, media and other disciplines.