Report recognizes university as global model for its commitment to sustained excellence in student-faculty satisfaction, financial stability, and teaching and research quality

Purdue University topped a 2025 list of the 25 best managed universities globally for its effort in demonstrating sustained excellence the past decade in student and faculty satisfaction, financial stability, teaching and research quality, and trust in graduate outcomes.

In the report by Canadian global management consulting firm Organizational Excellence Specialists titled “The Top 25 Best Managed Colleges and Universities,” Purdue is one of just three U.S. universities and six in North America recognized for setting benchmarks for effective leadership, management and innovative approaches, providing lessons for countries striving to improve the performance of higher education institutions.

Listed as the best-practice performers the past decade, the top 10 institutions in order are Purdue, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), National University of Singapore, ETH Zurich (Switzerland), University of Tokyo (Japan), University of Melbourne (Australia), Stanford University (U.S.), University of Toronto (Canada), KU Leuven (Belgium) and Seoul National University (South Korea). The other U.S. institution on the list, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was No. 22.

Purdue, with record-high student satisfaction and over a decade of tuition freezes initiated by President Mitch Daniels and continued during President Mung Chiang’s administration, stands as a leader among its higher education peers in the U.S. and globally in affordability, transparency and student-focused governance, according to the report.

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