The Student Achievement Measure is supported by six sponsoring associations, working together to provide a more comprehensive and accurate picture of student progress and completion as students move across institutions and state boundaries.

Purdue University-Main Campus

Purdue University is Indiana's land-grant institution, known not only for science, technology, engineering, and math focus, but also for its imagination, ingenuity, and innovation. It's a place where those who seek an education come to make their ideas real – especially when those transformative discoveries lead to scientific, technological, social, or humanitarian impact. Numerous luminaries have launched their careers at this Big Ten university, including Neil Armstrong and 22 other astronauts, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, Forbes' "100 Most Powerful Women" honoree Beth Brooke, legendary basketball coach John Wooden, the 2010 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Ei-ichi Negishi, and the 2009 World Food Prize winner, Gebisa Ejeta. The university is a partner in the Gallup-Purdue Index, measuring the most important outcomes of higher education, ensuring that universities are preparing students to be contributing and productive citizens in their workplaces and their communities. Purdue strives to offer higher education at its highest proven value. More than 40,000 students are enrolled at Purdue, and all 50 states and 130 countries are represented.

Fall 2017 First-time Full-time Cohort

6-year outcomes for undergraduate bachelor’s-seeking students as of 2023

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Bachelor's Model

First-Time Full-Time

First-Time Full-Time Students Starting Fall 2017

Number of students: 7,548

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84%

WITHIN 6 YEARS

81%

WITHIN 5 YEARS

65%

22%

WITHIN 4 YEARS

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Graduated: Reporting institution

Transferred & Graduated: Other Institution

Enrolled: Reporting institution

Transferred & Enrolled: Other Institution

Current Status Unknown

The SAM Full-time Bachelor's Degree model tracks a group of students who started a bachelor's degree program at Purdue University-Main Campus in the Fall of 2017. The students' progress toward a degree is reported within 4, 5, and 6 years. The same group of students is included in the results for every year.

The sections of the SAM chart represent the proportion of students in the original group with the following five outcomes.

Students who started at and graduated from Purdue University-Main Campus are represented by the darker purple bar with the solid black bar underneath (). (This section of the chart Within 6 Years is approximately the same as the federal graduation rate, but it may differ slightly for each institution.)
Students who started at Purdue University-Main Campus and then transferred to and graduated from another institution are represented by the lighter purple bar with the white stripe underneath ()
Students who started at and are still enrolled at Purdue University-Main Campus are represented by the darker aqua bar with two white stripes underneath ().
Students who started at Purdue University-Main Campus and then transferred to and are still enrolled at another institution are represented by the lighter aqua bar with the bottom white stripe ().
Students from the original group whose status is unknown are represented by the green bar with the top white stripe (). These students may have graduated or still be enrolled somewhere, but their status could not be determined conclusively.

Purdue University-Main Campus | Bachelor's Seeking Model - First-Time Full-Time

OUTCOMES FOR STUDENT STARTING AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY-MAIN CAMPUS IN FALL 2017 BY SUMMER 2023		2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	WITHIN 4 YEARS 2020-21	WITHIN 5 YEARS 2021-22	WITHIN 6 YEARS 2022-23


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	Bachelor's degree from Purdue University-Main Campus	0%	0%	3%	65%	81%	84%
+	Associate and/or Certificate degree from Purdue University-Main Campus	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
=	Total Graduated from Purdue University-Main Campus	0%	0%	3%	65%	81%	84%


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	Bachelor's degree from another institution	0%	0%	0%	2%	4%	5%
+	Associate and/or Certificate degree from another institution	0%	0%	1%	1%	1%	1%
=	Total Graduated from another institution	0%	0%	1%	3%	5%	6%


	Enrolled at Purdue University-Main Campus	99%	92%	85%	22%	5%	2%


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	Enrolled at another 4-year institution	0%	3%	5%	4%	2%	1%
+	Enrolled at another 2-year institution	0%	2%	2%	1%	1%	0%
=	Total Transferred and enrolled at another institution	0%	5%	6%	5%	3%	2%


	Current Status Unknown	1%	3%	5%	5%	6%	6%

Full-Time Transfer

Full-Time Transfer Students Starting Fall 2017

Number of students: 686