Applying to Purdue North Central

Admission Standards and Requirements

Quality guidelines for regular admission to Purdue North Central:

• An Indiana Core 40 or Academic Honors high school diploma, or equivalent
• Class Rank in in the upper 1/2
• A scholastic aptitude test score of 1400 on the SAT or 20 on the ACT

Limited capacity programs (such as Nursing and Elementary Education) may impose additional subject matter and quality requirements in order to select the strongest applicants in a consistent and equitable manner. These additional requirements would not impact the applicant's admission to uncapped programs.

If an applicant's academic background does not meet the entrance standards, the applicant may be granted one of the following alternative offers of admission:

• Conditional admission (with the stipulation that the conditional status will be re-evaluated once the student has completed 12 college-level credit hours with "C" or better).
• Admission on probation (admission with the understanding that if the student does not achieve a specified average in the first semester, the student will be dropped from the University. In most cases, admission on probation will be applied only to transfer students who were on probation at their previous school and former Purdue students who left the University on probation.

All of the alternative admission offers are granted based on the belief that the student has a reasonable chance of gaining regular admission at a later date. If the applicant's academic history cannot support this belief, the applicant will be denied admission to the University.