Welcome
to the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing!
Welcome to the department of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University. My name is Sugato Chakravarty and I am the Head of the department. With over 800 undergraduates and 40 graduate students we are the largest department within the College of Consumer and Family Sciences. We are a premier department in our area in the country and we have the faculty and students to prove it.
As you look through our website, I want to underscore that we are a student friendly department with both undergraduate and graduate programs in apparel design and technology, financial counseling and planning, retail management, and selling and sales management.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we are an interdisciplinary department with experts from marketing, finance, economics, consumer behavior, psychology, retailing, fashion design, among others, in our faculty. Consequently we are able to offer our students, both undergraduates and graduates, a well rounded education which serves them well after graduation. You can look through our faculty profiles under the Faculty and Staff portal to see if any of them catch your attention.
As you click through our pages you will be lead through our undergraduate, graduate and outreach portals. Here you will be able to see the kind of courses we offer and the various opportunities that exist for you as one of our select students. These include things like internships, scholarships, and study abroad opportunities which you will find interesting.
If you are interested in our graduate program you will be attracted to our Graduate portal. Here you will get information on the various scholarships and funding opportunities available as well as a list of accomplishments by our current and past graduate students.
Take your time in visiting and re-visiting our website and learn about our various programs, some of the research our faculty do and our significant outreach activities. If you would like to get more information, or would like to schedule a visit to the West Lafayette campus, please let us know. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff and faculty will answer your questions to the best of their ability. Happy touring!
Sugato Chakravarty
Professor and Department Head |
