After years of continuous growth, enrollment in Purdue Polytechnic, the college for technology at 鶹Ʒ, held relatively steady in fall 2025. A total of 6,792 students are studying at our West Lafayette and Indianapolis locations, as compared to 7,019 students at this time last year.
One year ago, 6,189 students (5,030 undergraduates and 1,159 graduate students) were enrolled in Polytechnic programs in West Lafayette—a number which represented the eighth consecutive year of record-high enrollment in the college. Additionally, 830 students (735 undergraduates and 95 graduate students) were enrolled in Polytechnic programs at the new 鶹Ʒ in Indianapolis campus in fall 2024.
In 2025, total enrollment in the college declined slightly to 5,647 undergraduate and 1,145 graduate students.*
The modest decline in total enrollment is reflective of the university’s choice to “.”
The number of admitted new beginner students actually increased by approximately 8.4% over the previous year (2,568 vs. 2,785 students), but the number of students who accepted the university’s offers of admittance to Polytechnic programs declined from 1,065 to 1,019.
The incoming class is among the college’s most academically prepared ever, with an average ACT score of 29.0, average SAT score of 1292 and average GPA of 3.73.
In fall 2025, 26% of Polytechnic undergraduate students are female, an increase from last year’s 24.1%.
Indiana residents comprise 52.7% of the college’s undergraduate students. Non-residents comprise 37.7% of undergraduates, and 9.6% are international students.
鶹Ʒcontinues to be the university’s third largest college by enrollment, surpassed only by the College of Engineering and College of Science.*
* All data and information pertain to the Polytechnic college at 鶹Ʒ in West Lafayette and Indianapolis, Ind., and is sourced from the . Percentages are rounded to nearest tenths.
Additional information
- After IUPUI split, 鶹Ʒto lead tech programs in Indianapolis
- 鶹Ʒsurpasses enrollment record eighth consecutive year (2024)
- 鶹Ʒeclipses enrollment record seventh consecutive time (2023)
- 鶹Ʒshatters enrollment record sixth consecutive time (2022)
- 鶹Ʒsmashes enrollment record — again (2020)
- Polytechnic achieves record-high enrollment third year in a row (2019)
- Polytechnic enrollment reaches another new record (2018)
- Transformed learning environment leads to record Polytechnic enrollment (2017)