Computer Graphics Technology Program

Combine technical and creative skills to design, analyze and communicate ideas visually. Prepare for a career in industry, advertising, gaming, education, entertainment, construction, web development and beyond.

Accreditation

ABET Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission: The Computer Graphics Technology Program at Purdue University is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria with no applicable program criteria.

HLC: All Purdue University programs are institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, https://www.hlcommission.org/

Program Educational Objectives:

  • Recognize and demonstrate their breadth and depth of knowledge as practicing professionals or engage in graduate education.
  • Apply and analyze their computer graphics knowledge to critical thinking and quantitative reasoning problems with an effective expression to persuade others to their images and ideas.
  • Synthesize all forms of information, combining elements in a different way to form new ideas and make judgements about information based on discovered criteria.
  • Utilize interdisciplinary graphics perspectives with an understanding of the powers and limits of each field and of the kind of contribution each can make; understand computer graphics phenomena as a complex whole and engage in professional development in their profession by adapting to new technology and career challenges.
  • Utilize inter- and intra-cultural understanding to recognize how their thoughts and actions are influenced by culture, helping them to understand a set of cognitive, affective and behavioral skills and characteristics that facilitate effective and appropriate interaction among peers within a professional team environment.

Student Learning Outcomes 

Graduates of the Bachelor of Science degree programs in Computer Graphics Technology will achieve the following learned capabilities:

  1. an ability to apply knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline;
  2. an ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly-defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline
  3. an ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly-defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use apprpriate technical literature;
  4. an ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes; and
  5. an ability to function effectively as a member as well as a lead on technical teams

Enrollment Trends

  2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025
West Lafayette 450 425 401 378 326 335 366 386 441 511 575 620 663 660 666 687 684
New Albany - - - - - - - 36 48 48 45 45 36 27 31 19 -
Richmond - - - - - - -

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21 28 27 32 30 24 13 7 -

Number of Graduates

  2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 2022-2023 2023-2024
West Lafayette 108 110 103 101 95 78 66 104 95 97 106 115 152 171 142 151
New Albany - - - - - - - - 5 9 11 12 11 4 10 3
Richmond - - - - - - - - 1 6 4 6 6 7 2 1

Enrollment Trends and Number of Graduates data is sourced from Purdue’s Office of Enrollment Management's Data Digest.

Placement Data*

Number of Graduates Percent of Grads Reported Placement Rate Continuing Education Average Salary
130 73.1% 67.4% 9 N/A