|Established||May 6, 1869| |Endowment||US$2.002 billion in 2012
(systemwide)| |President||Mitchell E. Daniels Jr.|
|Provost||Timothy D. Sands| |Students||39,726 (Fall 2010)|
|Undergraduates||30,836 (Fall 2010)| |Postgraduates||7,980 (Fall
2010)| |Location||West Lafayette, Indiana, US| |Campus||Large
town: 2,474 acres (10.01 km2) plus 15,108 acres (61.14 km2) for
agricultural and industrial research |Athletics||18 Division I /
IA NCAA teams| |Colors||Old Gold and Black|
|Affiliations||Purdue University system Association of American
Universities Committee on Institutional Cooperation Purdue
University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the flagship
university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue
was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the
Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act,
accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman
John Purdue to establish a college of science, technology, and
agriculture in his name. The first classes wer