Reingold Decade: By the Numbers
Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts
2 straight weeks of Chronicle stories: Can You Get Students Interested in the Humanities Again and A Modern Great Books Solution.
$7M National Endowment for the Humanities and Teagle Foundation replication program: Cornerstone Learning for Living.
8:44 feature on PBS NewsHour: Purdue program works to revive liberal arts as key part of the college experience.
42,828 enrollments in Transformative Texts SCLA 101 and SCLA 102 from Fall 2017-Spring 2025.
774 Cornerstone certificates completed through May 2025.
Degree in 3
22 CLA majors offering a Degree in 3 for Fall 2017.
627 students earned CLA Degree in 3 from 2017-18 through 2024-25.
Degree Plus
1,414 students have earned a B.A. in a College of Liberal Arts major along with their B.S. degree since Fall 2018.
Job Ready internship support
$387,250 in support for unpaid/low paid career-launching internships awarded through 321 scholarships from 2016-2025.
Graduate education
$22,000 to $29,988 graduate stipends for Fall 2025, up from $14,000, the lowest in the Big Ten, in Fall 2015.
$1.5M+ in research support for graduate students through PROMISE.
Faculty
218 faculty hired by the College of Liberal Arts.
$6.55M in internal grant support for enhancing faculty excellence through Aspire, Innovate, Create, 2Teach, and Engage.
Rankings
U.S. News Best Graduate Schools spring 2025
+ 17 -- Department of History
+ 11 -- Department of Political Science
+7 and now a top 50 program --Department of Sociology
Top 20 Leiter Reports ranking of Philosophy of the psychological, cognitive, and brain sciences.
Revenue and Investments
$5.1M in revenue generated through Purdue OWL partnership.
$46.6M investment in University Hall and related renovation to create a new front door for the College of Liberal Arts and upgrade spaces in Beering Hall and Stanley Coulter Hall.