Purdue University ( Purdue )

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system.[3] 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.