Industrial Engineering

Program Overview

Designing, analysing and improving systems of people, materials, technology and information, such as supply chains, production lines and hospital patient flow, using mathematics, science and business. 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.