The Numbers and More, 1900-01

 

Number       Students and Graduates

38                  Undergraduate Students, Fall Semester

9                    Graduates, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

80                  Winter Courses in Agriculture Participants

 

Number       Faculty, Courses and Academic Majors

1                    Academic Department

9                    Faculty Members

27                  Courses Offered to Undergraduates

1                    Academic Major

 

Dollars        Academic Year Fees, Undergraduate (Excludes special fees, no tuition charged until 1901-02)

$27              Indiana Residents  ($810 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

$27              Nonresident, U.S. Citizens  ($810 in 2018 dollars, inflation-adjusted)

 

Purdue Agriculture, 1900-01

• Purdue offered a non-degree “Two Years’ Course in Agriculture” including the introductory agricultural subjects of the regular four years’ course.
• Beginning in 1901-02, nonresidents were charged an additional $25 “tuition” fee.

 Elsewhere, 1900-01

• The World population was listed as 1,640,000,000.
• Twenty-eight percent of the 4,192 autos produced in the United States in 1900 were electric cars.