2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Jul 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Chancellor’s Welcome


Dear Student,

Greetings! We are proud you have chosen to pursue your degree at Purdue University Northwest. At PNW you are part of a diverse, hard-working and innovative community of learners and scholars who are truly making an impact in the communities we serve and the world at large. That’s what we call powering onward.

Sitting between Chicago and the Indiana Dunes National Park, PNW brings together students from next door and those from around the globe to learn, grow and excel. As a premier metropolitan university, PNW empowers the transformational change that leads to success – for you as a student, and for the region surrounding our Hammond and Westville campuses.

PNW takes pride in being a student-centered university, strategically committed to academic excellence. As a PNW student, you will have full access to the university’s diverse and rich resources where you can explore your interests and discover new ones. PNW faculty members are devoted to teaching and passionate about helping students succeed. Classroom and laboratory work will be enhanced through the university’s extensive partnerships in industry, business, non-profits, education, government and health care. PNW is about academic rigor, but we also play hard in the arts, the community, and on our athletic fields.

As a student enrolled at PNW, you may take advantage of a broad range of comprehensive learning experiences. As you do so, supporting your success on our campuses and beyond becomes our top priority. Throughout your Purdue Northwest experience, faculty and staff members across our academic and student affairs teams will build relationships to help you when you need it most.

Best wishes in your pursuit of excellence in your studies, engagement on and off campus, and your future journeys.

Sincerely,

Kenneth C. Holford, Ph.D.

Chancellor, Purdue University Northwest