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DePauw University
DePauw University, founded in 1837, has built one of the strongest reputations among Midwestern liberal arts colleges for its media and journalism-adjacent programs, and its Eugene S. Pulliam School of Communication has produced a notably high number of prominent broadcast journalists relative to the college's small size. The university's Greek life participation rate is among the highest of any American liberal arts college, with a substantial majority of students belonging to a fraternity or sorority, giving DePauw's social culture a distinctly different character from many peer liberal arts colleges where Greek life plays a smaller role. DePauw's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any liberal arts college in the Midwest, funding substantial merit and need-based financial aid, and the university's small size, around 1,700 undergraduates, lets it maintain close faculty engagement typical of elite liberal arts colleges. The university's Greencastle, Indiana campus and its combination of strong media and communications programs with a prominent Greek social culture have made DePauw a distinctive choice among Indiana's private liberal arts colleges, appealing particularly to students specifically interested in broadcast journalism or communications careers.
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Purdue University
Purdue University, founded in 1869 as a land-grant institution, has built one of the top engineering programs in the country, and the university counts more astronauts among its alumni than any other public university except the US service academies, a distinction closely tied to its long institutional emphasis on aerospace engineering. Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and Gene Cernan, the last person to walk on the moon, are both Purdue engineering graduates, a bookend fact the university actively promotes as reflecting its sustained, decades-long strength in producing aerospace engineers and astronauts. Purdue's decision to freeze undergraduate tuition at its 2012 rate for more than a decade afterward, under then-president and former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, made it one of the most heavily discussed examples nationally of a major public research university deliberately prioritizing tuition affordability over revenue growth. The university's West Lafayette campus and its continued strength across engineering, agriculture, and veterinary medicine reflect Purdue's land-grant founding mission, and its combination of nationally elite engineering programs and unusually disciplined tuition policy has made it one of the most consistently strong values in American public higher education.
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