Purdue University

Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, created by the Indiana General Assembly in 1869 and ranked joint 100th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.7普渡大学（Purdue University）是位于美国印第安纳州西拉斐特的公立赠地研究型大学，由印第安纳州议会于 1869 年设立，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第一百名，总分 68.7 分。

Founded under the Morrill Act of 1862 and named for the merchant John Purdue, who gave 150,000 dollars and a hundred acres of land, it opened for teaching on 16 September 1874 and has since produced more than 600,000 graduates, 27 astronauts and thirteen Nobel laureates学校依 1862 年《莫里尔赠地学院法》创办，以商人约翰·普渡命名——他捐赠了十五万美元与一百英亩土地；学校于 1874 年 9 月 16 日正式开课，此先后培养出逾 60 万名毕业生、27 名宇航员与十三位诺贝尔奖得主。

It is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference, a member of the Association of American Universities, and one of the leading public universities in the United States, and it has held tuition flat for fourteen consecutive years while its main campus teaches more than 50,000 students from over 135 countries学校是十大联盟（Big Ten）的创始成员、美国研究型大学协会成员，也是美国领先的公立大学之一；学校已连续十四年冻结学费，主校区有来自 135 个以上国家的五万余名在校生。

History

• Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act on 2 July 1862, granting federal land to states that would endow colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanical arts, and the Indiana General Assembly voted to participate in 1865.林肯于 1862 年 7 月 2 日签署《莫里尔赠地学院法》，向愿意以土地出让收益资助农业与机械技艺教育的州授予联邦公地；印第安纳州议会于 1865 年表决决定参与该法案。

• In 1869 the legislature selected the Lafayette area, which had offered the highest bid, and named the new institution Purdue University after John Purdue, a Lafayette merchant who contributed 150,000 dollars, with Tippecanoe County adding 50,000 dollars and local residents 100 acres of land1869 年，州议会选定了出价最高的拉斐特地区设立新校，并以拉斐特商人约翰·普渡的名字将其命名为普渡大学——他捐出十五万美元，蒂珀卡努县另加五万美元，当地居民则提供了约一百英亩土地。

• Construction of the first campus buildings began in 1871, and the institution opened for teaching on 16 September 1874 with six faculty members and thirty-nine students under its first president, Richard Owen, who had taken office in 1872首批校区建筑于 1871 年动工，学校在 1872 年首任校长理查德·欧文任上，于 1874 年 9 月 16 日以六名教职、三十九名学生的规模正式开课。

• John Bradford Harper received the first Purdue degree, a bachelor of science in chemistry, in 1875, and University Hall, completed in 1877, is today the oldest building on campus约翰·布拉德福德·哈珀于 1875 年获得普渡颁发的第一个学位——化学理学士；1877 年落成的大学礼堂至今仍是校内最古老的建筑。

• In 1895 the university's president James Smart led the creation of the Big Ten athletic conference, and Purdue, together with the school now known as Northwestern University, was one of the seven founding members1895 年，在校长詹姆斯·斯马特的推动下，学校参与创建了十大联盟体育联盟；普渡与今西北大学一道，是该联盟七个创始成员之一。

• The university awarded its first doctor of philosophy degree, in agronomy, in 1897, and the fight song Hail Purdue was composed by Edward Wotawa with lyrics by James Morrison in 1912学校于 1897 年授予首个哲学博士学位，学科为农学；战歌《Hail Purdue》由爱德华·沃塔瓦作曲、詹姆斯·莫里森作词，完成于 1912 年。

• The Purdue Research Foundation was registered in 1930, and Purdue University Airport opened in 1934 as the first university-owned airport in the United States, the campus having taught aeronautical engineering since its earliest years普渡研究基金会于 1930 年注册成立；普渡大学机场于 1934 年建成，是全美第一所大学自有机场，而学校自创校初期便已开设航空工程课程。

• In 1943 the Purdue Hymn, written and composed by Alfred B. Kirchhoff, was first performed by the university choir on 6 March, and in 1959 the university awarded its first bachelor of arts degrees as a departure from its historic emphasis on science and engineering由阿尔弗雷德·柯尔霍夫作词作曲的《普渡赞美歌》于 1943 年 3 月 6 日由大学合唱团首演；1959 年，学校授予首批文学学士学位，这标志着它从传统的科学与工程导向中迈出了一步。

• The present university seal was adopted for the hundredth anniversary in 1969, showing a griffin that combines an eagle's head with a lion's body above a shield divided into three parts for education, research and service现行校徽于 1969 年百年校庆时启用，其上是一只鹰头狮身的狮鹫，下方三分盾牌分别代表教育、研究与服务。

• The Discovery Park interdisciplinary research centre was established in 2001, and the university reported record external research funding of 613 million dollars in the 2023 fiscal year跨学科研究机构发现公园于 2001 年成立；学校报告 2023 财年外部科研经费达创纪录的 6.13 亿美元。

• The university announced the purchase of the for-profit Kaplan University on 27 April 2017, which was renamed Purdue University Global to serve adult learners, and in 2022 it launched a degree programme in semiconductors学校于 2017 年 4 月 27 日宣布收购营利性的卡普兰大学，后者更名为普渡环球大学以服务成人学习者；2022 年，学校启动了半导体学位项目。

• Purdue University in Indianapolis began operating on 1 July 2024 after IUPUI had been split off as an independent institution, with a downtown campus of 28 acres that enrolled more than 800 first-year students in its opening intake印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校拆分独立后，普渡大学印第安纳波利斯校区于 2024 年 7 月 1 日正式运行，其市中心校区占地 28 英亩，首批招收新生逾 800 人。

• In 2010 the School of Nursing, the School of Health Sciences, the College of Consumer and Family Sciences and the humanities disciplines of the College of Liberal Arts were merged to create the College of Health and Human Sciences, the newest of the university's colleges2010 年，护理学院、健康科学学院、消费者与家庭科学学院，以及文理学院中的人文学科合并组建健康与人类科学学院，成为学校最新的学院建制。

• Neil Armstrong, who graduated in aeronautical engineering in 1955 and commanded the first crewed lunar landing in 1969, left the university in 2013尼尔·阿姆斯特朗于 1955 年获得航空工程学士学位，1969 年指挥了人类首次登月；他于 2013 年从学校辞职。

Academics

• The university organises its teaching into eleven colleges and schools, including Agriculture, the Daniels School of Business, Education, Engineering, Health and Human Sciences, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Science, Veterinary Medicine and Purdue Polytechnic, together with the John Martinson Honors College学校下设十一个学院与学系，包括农业、丹尼尔斯商学院、教育、工程、健康与人类科学、文理、药学、理科、兽医学与普渡理工学院，以及约翰·马丁森荣誉学院。

• Its College of Engineering ranks fourth among universities that award doctorates in the United States according to US News, and its computer science department is the oldest degree-granting department of that subject in the country, ranked thirteenth nationally by CSRankings in April 2025据《美国新闻与世界报道》，学校工程学院在授予博士学位的美国大学中列全美第 4；其计算机科学系是美国该学科历史最悠久的授予学位系，2025 年 4 月 CSRankings 将其列为全美第 13。

• In the US News subject rankings for 2026 Purdue placed analytical chemistry first nationally, and ranked biological and agricultural engineering first, aerospace engineering fifth, mechanical engineering seventh, computer engineering and electrical engineering ninth, computer science nineteenth and statistics twenty-second在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 年学科排名中，普渡的分析化学列全美第 1，生物与农业工程第 1、航空航天工程第 5、机械工程第 7、计算机工程与电气工程第 9、计算机科学第 19、统计学第 22。

• The main campus in West Lafayette teaches more than 50,000 students drawn from over 135 countries, and the wider Purdue system enrols more than 102,000 students worldwide西拉斐特主校区有来自 135 个以上国家的五万余名在校生，普渡整个体系的全球在校生规模超过 10.2 万人。

• The university reported more than 400 research laboratories and record external research funding of 613 million dollars in the 2023 fiscal year, with its largest interdisciplinary facility being Discovery Park, established in 2001 and comprising eleven centres including the Birck Nanotechnology Center学校拥有四百余间研究实验室，2023 财年外部科研经费达创纪录的 6.13 亿美元；其最大的跨学科设施是 2001 年成立、包含十一个中心的发现公园，其中设有伯克纳米技术中心。

• It offers more than 200 undergraduate majors, and Purdue Online provides more than 200 online programmes through four accredited institutions, while Purdue Global operates more than 175 degree programmes online学校开设两百余个本科专业；普渡在线通过四个认证机构提供两百余个在线项目，普渡环球大学则在线运营 175 个以上的学位项目。

• For the class of 2025 the university received 59,173 applications, admitted 40,759 of them at a rate of 68.9 per cent and enrolled 10,157 freshmen for a yield of 24.9 per cent, with a first-year retention rate of 92 per cent and a six-year graduation rate of 81.5 per cent面向 2025 届，学校收到 59,173 份申请，录取 40,757 份、录取率 68.9%，实际入学 10,157 人、入学率 24.9%；一年级留存率为 92%，六年毕业率为 81.5%。

• The university has fifteen library locations holding more than three million volumes, including about one million electronic books, and its libraries preserve an Amelia Earhart collection of her notes, correspondence and search records学校共有十五个馆点，藏书三百余万册，其中电子书约一百万册；校图书馆还藏有阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特的收藏，包括她的笔记、书信以及失踪与搜寻的相关档案。

• Among its affiliated organisations are Purdue University Press, which publishes books on agriculture, health and engineering, and Purdue Research Park, which opened in 1961, was named the best research park in the United States by the Association of University Research Parks in 2004 and hosts 155 companies employing more than 3,000 people学校下属机构包括出版农业、健康与工程类图书的普渡大学出版社，以及始建于 1961 年的普渡研究园——该园区 2004 年被大学研究园协会评为全美最佳研究园，现有 155 家企业、雇员三千余人。

• The university has more than 600,000 alumni, and in 2014 the number of international students on campus rose to the largest of any public university in the United States, while Purdue Polytechnic operates nine satellite campuses across Indiana.学校校友超过 60 万人；2014 年，校园国际学生规模跃居美国公立大学之首；普渡理工学院在印第安纳州各地运营着九个卫星校区。

• The College of Pharmacy, established in 1884, is the third oldest state-supported pharmacy school in the United States, and the College of Engineering was founded in 1874, the same year teaching began药学院成立于 1884 年，是美国第三古老的州立药学院；工程学院则创立于 1874 年，与学校开课同年。

Campus

• The flagship campus lies in West Lafayette on the west bank of the Wabash River opposite Lafayette, with Mitch Daniels Boulevard, formerly State Street, dividing it into a north and a south half, and teaching buildings concentrated in the east and south while residence halls and intramural fields sit in the west旗舰校区位于西拉斐特，坐落在沃巴什河西岸、与拉斐特隔河相望，原名 State Street 的米奇·丹尼尔斯大道将校区分为南北两半；教学楼集中于东南区，学生宿舍与校内运动场在西部，体育设施在北部。

• A system of underground tunnels connects the buildings, sheltering students from snow, ice, wind, rain and ultraviolet light, a response to the severity of the Indiana winter校内有一套地下隧道系统连接各栋建筑，为学生遮挡雪、冰、风、雨与紫外线，这是对印第安纳州严冬环境的回应。

• Beyond the flagship, the Purdue system comprises the Indianapolis campus opened in 2024, nine Purdue Polytechnic satellite campuses, Purdue Global for online learners and Purdue Polytechnic High School with tuition-free programmes in Indianapolis除旗舰校区外，普渡体系还包括 2024 年开放的印第安纳波利斯校区、普渡理工学院的九个卫星校区、面向在线学习者的普渡环球大学，以及在印第安纳波利斯提供免学费项目的普渡理工学院高中。

• University Hall, begun in 1871 and completed in 1877 as the Main Building, is the only survivor of the original six campus buildings, and John Purdue is buried in Memorial Mall directly opposite it, as he requested大学礼堂于 1871 年动工、1877 年以主楼之名落成，是最初六栋校区建筑中唯一存世者；按约翰·普渡的遗愿，他被安葬在正对面的纪念广场上。

• The Felix Haas Hall was built in 1909 as a memorial gymnasium for the seventeen players, coaches, alumni and fans who died in the Purdue Wreck railway accident of 1903, was converted into computer science offices in 1985 and renamed in 2006费利克斯·哈斯大楼于 1909 年作为纪念体育馆建成，以纪念 1903 年普渡惨剧中遇难的十七名球员、教练、校友与球迷；1985 年改建为计算机科学系办公场所，2006 年更名。

• The Purdue Bell Tower was planned after the old power plant chimney was demolished in 1992 and completed in 1995 using the bell from the second Heavilon Hall, while the Marc and Sharon Hagle Hall, finished in 2022, replaced the Elliott Hall as the home of Purdue Bands and Orchestras普渡钟楼在 1992 年拆除发电厂旧烟囱后开始规划，1995 年以第二座希维隆楼的钟建成；2022 年落成的马克与沙龙·哈格尔大楼则接替埃利奥蒂音乐厅，成为普渡乐队与乐团的基地。

• Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering was named for the 1969 moonwalker and displays a statue of him as an undergraduate holding a slide rule, while the Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music is among the largest proscenium theatres in the world尼尔·阿姆斯特朗工程馆以这位 1969 年的登月者命名，馆前矗立着他作为本科生手持计算尺的雕像；爱德华·埃利奥蒂音乐厅则是全球最大的台口剧场之一。

• About a third of single undergraduates live in residence halls, with seventeen halls offering more than 10,000 places, alongside about forty fraternities and thirty sororities, among the largest Greek systems in the United States约三分之一的单身本科生住校，十七栋宿舍提供一万余个床位；学校另有约四十个兄弟会与三十个姐妹会，是全美最大的希腊字母社团体系之一。

• The Ross-Ade Stadium stands adjacent to the campus across the river, and in 2022 Purdue sold its radio station WBAA to WFYI-FM in return for a sponsorship credit of 700,000 dollars and a promise of 250,000 dollars a year for two years罗斯-艾德体育场毗邻校园、位于河对岸；2022 年，普渡将电台 WBAA 出售给 WFYI-FM，获得 70 万美元的赞助抵扣，并承诺两年内每年投入 25 万美元。

Reputation

• The university placed joint 100th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 68.7, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2027 placed it 84th in the world with an overall score of 69.8学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列全球第一百名，总分 68.7 分；在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中位列世界第八十四位，总分 69.8 分。

• US News ranked it nineteenth among public universities in the United States in 2026 and seventh in the most innovative universities list, while its College of Engineering was eighth and its co-op and internship programme sixth《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 年将学校列为全美公立大学第 19 位、最具创新力大学第 7 位；其工程学院列第 8 位，实习与合作教育项目列第 6 位。

• The university counts thirteen Nobel laureates among its students, researchers and current or former faculty, including Herbert C. Brown, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry while a Purdue professor, and Ei-ichi Negishi, who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on palladium-catalysed cross-coupling学校的学生、研究者以及现任或前任教职中共有十三位诺贝尔奖得主，其中包括在任期间获得 1979 年诺贝尔化学奖的化学教授赫伯特·布朗，以及因钯催化交叉偶联反应分享 2010 年诺贝尔化学奖的根岸英一。

• Edward Purcell, a Purdue alumnus who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Ben Roy Mottelson, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, also studied there, while Akira Suzuki, a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue, shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry分享 1952 年诺贝尔物理学奖的普渡校友爱德华·珀塞尔，以及分享 1975 年诺贝尔物理学奖的本·罗伊·莫特尔森，也都曾在此求学；曾在普渡从事博士后研究的铃木 Akira 则分享了 2010 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• According to OpenAlex, scholars affiliated with Purdue University have published more than 289,000 works that have drawn over 21 million citations.据 OpenAlex 数据，与普渡大学相关的学者已发表成果逾 28.9 万篇，累计被引超过 2,100 万次。

• The Times Higher Education subject tables of 2026 placed Purdue tenth in the world for interdisciplinary sciences and thirtieth for engineering, and CSRankings in April 2025 ranked its computer science department thirteenth in the United States泰晤士高等教育 2026 年学科榜将普渡的跨学科科学列为全球第 10、工程第 30；CSRankings 2025 年 4 月将其计算机科学系列为全美第 13。

• The university is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference, created in 1895, and the university itself notes that it has been ranked among the top ten public universities in the United States by the QS World University Rankings for four consecutive years学校是 1895 年成立的十大联盟创始成员，并自述在 QS 世界大学排名中连续四年位居美国公立大学前十。

• More than a third of the crew members of every NASA crewed space mission have included a Purdue graduate, and Purdue counts twenty-seven astronauts among its alumni, alongside two recipients of the World Food Prize and three of the Pulitzer Prize美国航天局历次载人航天任务的机组成员中，超过三分之一曾有普渡毕业生；学校校友中有二十七名宇航员，另有两位世界粮食奖与三位普利策奖得主。

• Strategas in 2024 ranked Purdue first among public universities for the number of chief executives it has produced who lead Fortune 500 companies, and the university has held tuition flat for fourteen consecutive yearsStrategas 2024 年的排名显示，普渡在培养出担任《财富》500 强公司首席执行官的人数上居公立大学之首；学校同时已连续十四年冻结学费。

• In the 2026 US News domestic rankings its engineering programmes placed fifth nationally in the graduate engineering table, and its analysis and statistics group recorded external research funding of 613 million dollars in the 2023 fiscal year在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 年国内排名中，其工程项目列全美研究生工程榜第 5；2023 财年，其分析学与统计学科组获得 6.13 亿美元外部科研经费。

Student life

• Purdue has no traditional motto phrase, and its official substitute is the seal adopted in 1969, whose griffin of an eagle's head on a lion's body stands for strength above a three-part shield of education, research and service普渡没有传统的校训短语，其官方替代物是 1969 年启用的校徽——鹰头狮身的狮鹫象征力量，下方三分盾分别代表教育、研究与服务。

• The university has two formal musical works, the fight song Hail Purdue composed by Edward Wotawa with lyrics by James Morrison in 1912, and the Purdue Hymn, written and composed by Alfred B. Kirchhoff in 1941 and adopted as an official hymn in about 1993 after a petition by hundreds of students and alumni学校有两首正式音乐作品：1912 年由爱德华·沃塔瓦作曲、詹姆斯·莫里森作词的战歌《Hail Purdue》，以及阿尔弗雷德·柯尔霍夫于 1941 年作词作曲的《普渡赞美歌》，后者在数百名师生请愿后于 1993 年前后被校董会采纳为正式校歌。

• The university marks 6 May 1869, the day the Indiana General Assembly established it, as its founding date, and held a formal centenary celebration in 1969 at which the present seal was adopted学校以印第安纳州议会设立它的 1869 年 5 月 6 日为创校纪念日，并于 1969 年举行百年庆典、在这场庆典上启用了现行校徽。

• It does not operate a residential college system, and about a third of single undergraduates live in seventeen halls of residence while the rest live in fraternities, sororities, cooperatives or private accommodation, with Cary Quadrangle among the largest all-male dormitory complexes in the United States学校不设住宿学院制，约三分之一的单身本科生住在十七栋宿舍，其余则住兄弟会、姐妹会、合作社或校外私宅；卡里四合院是美国最大的全男性宿舍群之一。

• The Grand Prix, a fifty-mile, 160-lap kart race whose thirty-three cars are built from scratch by student teams and which has raised student scholarship money since 1958, is billed as the greatest spectacle in college racing大奖赛是一场 50 英里、160 圈的卡丁车赛，33 辆赛车全部由学生队从零自制，自 1958 年起即为学生奖学金筹款，被誉为「大学赛车界最盛大的表演」。

• The Boilermaker Special, an official mascot shaped like a locomotive that first appeared before a student rally in September 1940, is cared for by the Purdue Reamer Club, and the Big Bass Drum, ten feet high on a carriage built from a 1921 original and eight feet in diameter, is operated by six people机车造型的官方吉祥物「锅炉工小子」于 1940 年 9 月的学生集会上首次亮相，由普渡轮机俱乐部照管；被称为全世界最大的大鼓高十英尺、直径八英尺，车架为 1921 年原件，由六人乐队组操作。

• The student newspaper The Purdue Exponent, founded in 1889, is the largest university daily in Indiana with a circulation of 17,500 copies each term and about 150 student staff, and the university also supports more than one thousand student organisations创刊于 1889 年的学生报《普渡评论》是印第安纳州发行量最大的大学日报，每学期发行 17,500 份，配备约 150 名学生员工；学校还支持一千余个学生组织。

• The university competes with eighteen teams in NCAA Division I and, unusually for American universities, charges students neither for athletics nor subsidises them from general funds, and its football series against Indiana University for the Old Oaken Bucket trophy, first contested in 1925, it led 77 to 42 with six ties as of 13 January 2024.学校拥有十八支 NCAA 一级校队参加比赛，且在美国大学中颇为特殊——体育项目既不向学生收费，也不由学校拨款补贴；其与印第安纳大学争夺「老橡木桶」奖杯的橄榄球系列赛始于 1925 年，截至 2024 年 1 月 13 日普渡以 77 胜 42 负 6 平领先。

• The main campus adjoins the city of Lafayette across the Wabash River, while the Indianapolis campus sits downtown at 520 Indiana Avenue, where a twenty-five-thousand-square-foot student centre opened in August 2025主校区与拉斐特市隔沃巴什河相接；印第安纳波利斯校区则位于市中心的 Indiana Avenue 520 号，两层共 25,000 平方英尺的学生中心于 2025 年 8 月开放。

• Two national organisations grew out of Purdue student life, namely the National Society of Black Engineers and the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, which was made national in 1988两个全国性组织都发端于普渡的学生社团，分别是全国黑人工程师学会，以及 1988 年实现全国化的拉布·戈德堡机器大赛。

Notable people

• John Purdue, a Lafayette merchant and philanthropist rather than a teacher or a student, gave the university its name and endowment, and its first president, Richard Owen, took office in 1872, with John S. Hougham among the first teachers of 1874约翰·普渡是拉斐特的商人与慈善家，本人并非教师或学生，学校以其名与捐赠而立；1872 年出任首任校长的是理查德·欧文，1874 年首批教师中则包括约翰·霍勒姆。

• Emerson E. White, president from 1876 to 1883, enforced a strict reading of the Morrill Act and argued that Purdue was an industrial college, and his successor James H. Smart, who led the creation of the Big Ten in 1895, commissioned the Heavilon Hall said to be one brick taller than every other building on campus1876 年至 1883 年任校长的埃默森·怀特严格遵循莫里尔法案的解释，坚持普渡是一所工业学院；其继任者詹姆斯·斯马特在 1895 年主导创建十大联盟，并主持修建了号称比校内其他建筑高一砖的希维隆楼。

• Herbert C. Brown, who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on boron compounds, and Ei-ichi Negishi, who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalysed cross-coupling, are the two chemistry laureates who won while holding Purdue posts因硼化合物研究分享 1979 年诺贝尔化学奖的赫伯特·布朗，与因钯催化交叉偶联分享 2010 年诺贝尔化学奖的根岸英一，是在普渡任职期间获奖的两位化学奖得主。

• Edward Purcell, who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics, took his bachelor of science at Purdue, and Ben Roy Mottelson, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics, studied there as an undergraduate分享 1952 年诺贝尔物理学奖的爱德华·珀塞尔在普渡取得理学学士学位；分享 1975 年诺贝尔物理学奖的本·罗伊·莫特尔森也曾在此攻读本科。

• Neil Armstrong, who received a bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering in 1955 and became the first person to walk on the Moon, is Purdue's most famous alumnus, and Eugene Cernan, the last person to walk on the Moon, and Gus Grissom, the second American in space, also studied there1955 年获得航空工程理学学士、1969 年成为首位登月者的尼尔·阿姆斯特朗，是普渡最著名的校友；最后一位登月者尤金·塞尔南与美国第二位进入太空者格斯·格里森也出自该校。

• Amelia Earhart served from 1935 as an adviser and consultant for Purdue's flight courses rather than as a member of staff or a student, and in 1936 she flew a Lockheed Electra 10-E around the world with support from the Purdue Research Foundation阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特自 1935 年起担任普渡飞行课程的顾问，而非教职或学生；1936 年，她在普渡研究基金会资助下驾驶洛克希德 Electra 10-E 环球飞行。

• Chesley Sullenberger, who took a master's degree from Purdue in 1973, brought United Airlines flight 1549 down on the Hudson on 15 January 2009 and saved all 155 people aboard, while Brian Lamb, a Purdue alumnus, founded C-SPAN and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom1973 年在普渡取得硕士学位的切斯利·萨伦贝格，于 2009 年 1 月 15 日将全美航空 1549 航班迫降哈德逊河，机上 155 人全部生还；普渡校友布莱恩·兰姆创办了 C-SPAN 并获美国总统自由勋章。

• Deng Jiaxian, who took a doctorate in physics at Purdue in 1950, became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the architects of China's nuclear weapons programme, and Liang Sili, who graduated in electrical engineering in 1945, was the son of Liang Qichao and an academician of the same academy1950 年在普渡取得物理学博士学位的邓稼先，成为中国科学院院士与中国核武器研制的奠基人之一；1945 年电机工程毕业的梁思礼是梁启超之子，同为中国科学院院士。

• Other Chinese alumni include Chen Xuejun, who took a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1946 and became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Buxuan, who took a master's in the same subject in 1949, and Li Guojie, who took a doctorate in computer science in 1985 and headed the Institute of Computing Technology其他华人校友还包括：1946 年获机械工程硕士、成为中科院院士的陈学俊，1949 年获同专业硕士的传热学专家王补宣，以及 1985 年获计算机科学博士、曾任中国科学院计算技术研究所所长的李国杰。

• Vernon L. Smith, who shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, held a professorship at Purdue's Krannert School of Management for twelve years and holds an honorary doctorate from the university, but his degrees come from the California Institute of Technology and Harvard, so he is not an alumnus in the degree sense分享 2002 年诺贝尔经济学奖的弗农·史密斯曾在普渡克兰纳特管理学院任教十二年，并获该校荣誉博士学位；但他的学位来自加州理工学院与哈佛，因此不宜表述为普渡的学位校友。

• The university's alumni also include Akinwumi Adesina, former minister of agriculture and rural development in Nigeria and former president of the African Development Bank, Essam Sharaf, former prime minister of Egypt, and the general Sun Li-jen of the Nationalist Chinese army普渡校友中还有曾任尼日利亚农业与农村发展部长、非洲开发银行行长的阿金武米·阿德西纳，曾任埃及总理的伊萨姆·沙拉夫，以及中国国民革命军将领孙立人。