My son will buck that trend; he is heading to Purdue for CS and hates being dirty. He is the cleanest male I have ever met. Maybe he will win an award. (or get an internship)

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Anonymous wrote:They also put freshmen in forced quads.

I can smell those engineering quads thru the screen

Ewww

That smell is your armpits, bruh! Shower at least once a week..

There is a running joke on the Purdue subreddit about CS majors never showering.

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Anonymous wrote:They also put freshmen in forced quads.

I can smell those engineering quads thru the screen

Ewww

That smell is your armpits, bruh! Shower at least once a week..

Anonymous wrote:Purdue has been brilliantly managed

👍+1

Purdue has been brilliantly managed

Most universities have huge administrative bloat and professors that teach less and less.

Anonymous wrote:They also put freshmen in forced quads.

I can smell those engineering quads thru the screen

Ewww

As a parent of a Purdue CS student, I'm thrilled with the school. Dorms vary, my child was in honors so those are large and new. Some kids did get put into 8 person rooms up when they overenrolled. Notably they all declined to move when space opened - they liked it.

The school is like a well run business. They are growing in all sorts of ways and thus getting more revenue and they are results focused. I have not felt at all that they were in "budget" mode. You will find random complaints at every school.

You cannot beat this school for value if you are OOS, especially for engineering and CS/AI.

My son is headed there this Fall as a CS major. We are very proud of him and he is very excited about Purdue. He loved the "vibe". Everyone is so friendly and had been super helpful with any issues or questions he has had during the application/admissions process. He was told to buy a suit before coming to campus because the CS kids are recruited from day 1. Dad is happy that tuition is reasonable

I think they are very good with marketing to tech companies, defense contractors, etc. Probably more successful in that regard than universities where the majority of majors are liberal arts/social studies.

Also, contrary to some people’s political perceptions (just because it’s in a red state), Purdue does have a DEI office and they actively engage in STEM programs for URM and first generation at HS level and recruit them.

I believe Purdue utilizes private contributions. DC is participating in an academic boot camp this summer for minority engineering students. DC will earn 9 credits, will take simulated chem and math classes, and participate in research projects with industry. The program is mostly free and funded by private industry.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]Purdue CS is rapidly rising in the ranks

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q2/purdue-announces-3-pronged-purdue-computes-initiative-propel-computer-science-to-the-nations-top-10-launch-the-institute-of-physical-ai-and-expand-semiconductor-facilities.html

You’d be a fool to not consider it for your kids.

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+1. Our kid got in for aerospace engineering but chose UVA (cheaper, in the end a smart decision because she changed majors).. Purdue has been brilliantly managed for a decade. You can't say that about most colleges and universities today in america

Agree. Purdue is about the only college in the country that knows fiscal discipline.

what have the done exactly?

Froze tuition & cut a bunch of programs in the arts. Fired a lot of admins. Cut the student-run radio. Lots of programs & depts are running on skeleton staffing. Off-campus rents are through the roof nowadays due to the increase in wealthy OOS kids.

If you are willing to pay $60k instead of $28k per year to pay for those admins aand overbloated bureaucracy and art programs, there are all those schools you can choose from other than Purdue.

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Anonymous[b wrote:]Purdue CS is rapidly rising in the ranks

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2023/Q2/purdue-announces-3-pronged-purdue-computes-initiative-propel-computer-science-to-the-nations-top-10-launch-the-institute-of-physical-ai-and-expand-semiconductor-facilities.html

You’d be a fool to not consider it for your kids.

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+1. Our kid got in for aerospace engineering but chose UVA (cheaper, in the end a smart decision because she changed majors).. Purdue has been brilliantly managed for a decade. You can't say that about most colleges and universities today in america

Agree. Purdue is about the only college in the country that knows fiscal discipline.

what have the done exactly?

I don’t know. You have to ask Mitch Daniels, former president of Purdue for 10 years, for magic formula. Being a STEM heavy school, especially in engineering and CS, they do get a lot of corporate donations and sponsorships. But other colleges do too. Probably they don’t spend on extravagant stuff. The new president, Mung Chiang, who took over in January of this year, said in an interview that the president’s salary is the same as a fully tenured professor. Many university presidents (including public ones) are paid 7 digits now. (Back in the late 80’s UCLA Chancellor Young was paid $150k per year and some thought it was too high then. Even with inflation, it’s minuscule compared to how much college chiefs are paid today. Sorry for digressing.) Anyway, this new President Chiang was the dean of engineering school and ECE professor. He had been a tenured professor at Princeton before he went to Purdue a few years ago. There are interviews of him on YT. (Ph.D from Stanford.) Seems like a no-nonsense guy.