Required, with exceptions for some programsEA

Purdue University—Main Campus

IN · Public · Midwest · National university · Top 100 tier · 43,356 undergraduates (large)

Admission rates

Latest admit rates

Overall admit rate43.4%
Early roundNot reported by roundEarly-round counts not in the CDS
Regular round†Not reported by roundEarly-round counts not in the CDS

† Not reported by round: this school publishes an overall admit rate but not applicant and admit counts for each round, so early and regular rates can’t be shown.

Trends, Fall 2020–Fall 2025

Admission rates

Overall
0%35%70%'20'21'22'23'24'2567.1%68.9%52.7%49.9%43.4%no data

Early plans

Fall 2027 applicants

Early Action, non-binding · School admissions page ↗What this means:

Testing

Testing policy

Fall 2027
Required, with exceptions for some programsPurdue calls it "test expected": SAT, ACT or CLT; applying without a score only in exceptional casesSchool testing page ↗ · checked Nov 2026
Fall 2028
Fall 2028 policy not yet announced.School testing page ↗ · checked Nov 2026

Superscoring

What this means:

SAT
Superscores
ACT
Superscores

Source ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026

Required (with exceptions). Wording is about how you report; page does not use the word "superscore".

How to send scores

Self-report accepted; school doesn’t say when official scores are due

You can self-report or send official scores. The school’s page doesn’t say when official scores are required.

Self-reported scores are part of a complete application; applicants may self-superscore by section. This page does not say when official scores are due.

School’s words: “Self-reported ACT or SAT scores ... For a given test, you may use your highest scores in each section from different testing dates when reporting your full score.”

Source ↗ · checked Nov 3, 2026

Students submitting scores

Est. % submitting scores‡100%Scores required for this class

‡ Est. % submitting scores adds the share of enrolled first-years who submitted the SAT to the share who submitted the ACT.

Submitted SAT83.8%
8,096 students
Submitted ACT22.6%
2,187 students

Score ranges (middle 50%)

Enrolled first-years who submitted scores, Fall 2025. A quarter scored below the range and a quarter above.

SAT composite
1220–1470 median 1360
10001600
SAT Reading & Writing
610–730 median 670
500800
SAT Math
600–760 median 680
500800
ACT composite
28–34 median 32
2036

Trends, Fall 2020–Fall 2025

Share of enrolled students submitting scores

SAT + ACT (est.)SATACT
0%50%100%'20'21'22'23'24'25100%93.1%95.9%96.2%100%100%81.8%62.2%67.0%72.6%79.3%83.8%46.1%30.9%28.9%23.6%25.3%22.6%

SAT composite, middle 50%

25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
160014001200'20'21'22'23'24'25no datano data1210–1450145012101210–1450145012101210–1470147012101220–147014701220

ACT composite, middle 50%

25th–75th percentile, enrolled students (labels show both values)
36322824'20'21'22'23'24'2525–33332526–33332627–34342727–34342727–34342728–343428

Waitlist admit rate

Share of students who stayed on the waitlist and were later admitted, by entering class.

  • 2025: 97%
  • 2024: 0.5%
  • 2023: 9%
  • 2022: 0.3%
  • 2021: 0.4%

What is a waitlist? How is it different from a deferral?

Test policy in each Common Data Set

History only. The current policy is under Testing above.

  1. Fall 2027 Required2025-26 CDS
  2. Fall 2026 Required2024-25 CDSThis form’s own wording says Fall 2022; every CDS here is read as covering the fall two years after its first year.
  3. Fall 2025 Required2023-24 CDS
  4. Fall 2024 Required2022-23 CDSThis form’s own wording says Fall 2022; every CDS here is read as covering the fall two years after its first year.
  5. Fall 2023 Recommended2021-22 CDSThis form’s own wording says Fall 2022; every CDS here is read as covering the fall two years after its first year.
  6. Fall 2022 Required2020-21 CDS
  7. Fall 2021 CDS not available2019-20 CDS

Sources