Computer Engineering

Program Overview

Designing computers by blending hardware and software, from smartphones to the systems behind innovation, with advanced study in artificial intelligence, compilers, graphics, networks and operating systems. How competitive: for fall 2025, Purdue admitted 22% of its 16,327 international first-year applicants (43% of all 87,220). It has no overall IB minimum, gives HL no preference over SL and considers IB students with or without the full Diploma; it expects SAT, ACT or CLT scores. You apply to a specific major. At West Lafayette you apply to First-Year Engineering and move into this major in your second year. The review places particular emphasis on calculus where available and four years of laboratory science, with chemistry expected.