When my daughter and I toured campus last year, and Krannert under grad in particular, I was dumbfounded by the number of Asian students, especially Chinese. There was one 90 second period where we were walking, I think on the 2 or 3 floor of Krannert, where there's a ton of computing stations/rooms, and also a studio to conduct and record interviews and speeches and such, where we did not see a single 'Anglo' student. Our recruiter told us that asian students are 21% of Purdue's undergrad population iirc, with heavier concentrations in Engineering and Business.
Our student host was also asian, but was from a medium size town in Indiana....iirc, Peru, Marion or Kokomo...one of those. Great host/great kid btw.
Our daughter ended up at Michigan, where she's applying to the Ross undergrad business school now. I've been on the campus more than a few times as a result and I am surprised UMich is not on that list also, but it lists total number of asian students, not a per capita. If it was per capita, Michigan would no doubt be up there.
All of this brings up the subject of the number of seats in the school that are being taken up by foreign students, who I am told are paying out of state tuition plus a $1,000/semester foreign student fee. IMO, that is absolutely ridiculous. We are selling out, at bargain prices, one of this country's most valuable assets, our extensive university systems, to students whose families have paid NO WHERE near as much in taxes over the years, both in federal taxes and state taxes. We are vastly under-valuing ourselves and our country's infrastructure, be in physical or non-physical, to say nothing of the plain opportunity.
