Purdue University-Main Campus

Purdue University is a public land-grant research university founded in 1869 in West Lafayette, Indiana, with an urban campus in Indianapolis. Its West Lafayette campus is the flagship of the Purdue University system, and the university is classified as an R1 institution for very high research activity. Purdue is also the founding member of the Big Ten Conference and is home to the world's oldest computer science degree-granting department and the first university-owned airport in the United States.