what city is purdue university located?
Indiana West Lafayette United States of America
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 Purdue head coach Danny Hope began his first season in West Lafayette . On September 12 , Minnesota opened the 2009 season its new 50 @,@ 720 @-@ seat home field , TCF Bank Stadium when the team hosted the Air Force Falcons . For the third straight year , each Big Ten home game during the first three weeks of the season was broadcast nationally on ABC , ESPN , ESPN2 or the Big Ten Network , which televised more than 20 contests altogether in the opening weeks , including all nine home games in Week 1 . Every ABC afternoon telecast was broadcast nationally , either on ABC or simultaneously on ESPN or ESPN2 . Note that although the Big Ten is a regional conference the Big Ten Network , which was available in 19 of the 20 largest U.S. media markets , was available to approximately 73 million homes in the U.S. and Canada through agreements with more than 250 cable television or satellite television affiliates . 

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 The university is also a major contributor to the medical field with the EKG , gastroscope , and the announcement of Jonas Salk 's polio vaccine . The university 's 13 @,@ 000 @-@ acre ( 53 km2 ) biological station in the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan is one of only 47 Biosphere Reserves in the United States . 

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 The university has " historical , formal , on @-@ going , and symbolic ties " with the United Methodist Church , but is a nonsectarian and independent institution . 

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 The total cost of attending Purdue has fallen since Daniels assumed Purdue ’ s presidency , despite a trend at Big Ten institutions of rising costs . Total loan debt among the student body has also fallen 23 % or $ 50 million . Tuition at Purdue , prior to Daniels ’ arrival had increased every year since 1976 . Two months after Daniels assumed his role as president , Purdue announced it would freeze tuition for two years , eventually extending the freeze for four years . As a result , four @-@ year graduates from the class of 2016 will become the first in at least 40 years to leave Purdue having never experienced a tuition increase . 

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 Lafayette College is settled at the top of College Hill in Easton , Pennsylvania , located in the Lehigh Valley . The campus location is about 70 mi ( 110 km ) west of New York City and 60 mi ( 97 km ) north of Philadelphia . Its 340 @-@ acre campus houses 69 buildings , comprising approximately 1 @.@ 76 million square feet , which includes a 230 @-@ acre athletic campus . Lafayette 's campus buildings range in architectural style from Pardee Hall 's Second Empire design and Hogg Hall 's Collegiate Gothic , to the late modern architecture of the Williams Center for the Arts , the William E. and Carol G. Simon Wing of Skillman Library and the Farinon College Center . 
