Purdue University Calumet

About

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An academically comprehensive regional university and part of the internationally respected Purdue University system. (Our graduates earn a Purdue degree!)
Located in Hammond, Ind….less than 25 miles southeast of downtown Chicago, near the shores of Lake Michigan…3 miles east of the Indiana-Illinois state line…off Interstate 80/94.
A residential campus offering apartment-style, private bedroom living for nearly 750 students.
17-building, 167-acre neighborhood campus, as well as an Academic Learning Center offering classes in nearby Merrillville, IN, less than 15 miles southwest of campus.

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Is strategically committed to helping qualified, achievement-oriented students persist and succeed in earning a Purdue degree.
Offers baccalaureate and master’s degrees plus professional certificates in nearly 100 fields of study, including such traditional Purdue strengths as engineering; technologies; professional programs of nursing, management/business and education; natural, behavioral and social sciences; communication; and the liberal arts.
Is distinctive by the inclusion of structured experiential learning—the integration of traditional classroom learning with the applied learning that occurs in a job or other real world setting—including internships, cooperative education, research, study abroad, service learning, design projects, or practica in the academic study programs of all baccalaureate degree-seeking students.
To help new students succeed, a 1^st year experience program is being adopted.
Graduates have earned more than 41,700 Purdue degrees.

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Many faculty/staff engage in nationally prominent research.
More than 10,100 students enrolled, ranging in age from 16 to 89.
Minority students, including more Hispanic enrollees than at any other Indiana university or college, comprise one-third of the total body.
Nearly 600 international students are enrolled.

Purdue Calumet Campus in the Fall

There are opportunities to grow academically and personally through learning communities.
There are more than 60 student organizations in which to engage and become active.
Intercollegiate athletic teams are fielded in men’s and women’s basketball and, beginning in Fall 2010, men’s golf, women’s volleyball, and men’s & women’s tennis.
There is a thriving intramural sports program, gymnasium, and comprehensive fitness center.

We do so through partnerships, involvement with, and development of the following…

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