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Purdue
Merit aid offeredPublished award: $16,000/year ($64,000 over four years). The school chooses the recipients.
Important: Treating Purdue's November 1 Early Action deadline as soft.
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Listed yearly cost before aid: about $46,174
Who this may suit: Three profiles. First: out-of-state STEM/engineering applicants who hit the Nov 1 firm deadline; Trustees ($16K/yr) is the headline OOS automatic award and stacks with Indy Scholars only at the Indianapolis campus. Second: Indiana residents, where Trustees ($10K/yr in-state) on top of an already-low frozen-tuition COA produces one of the lowest net-price flagship outcomes in the country. Third: the Lilly Scholars target, which is pharma/manufacturing-leaning applicants chasing the full-tuition + guaranteed Lilly internship/co-op pipeline. Purdue is NOT for OOS families chasing high-dollar negotiation; awards are explicitly nonnegotiable and Purdue does not match competitor offers.
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