Purdue University is once again ranked among the nation's *best schools for innovation"

An annual list released by "U.S. News and World Report" moved Purdue *up a spot from last year

Again ranked among the nation's (best schools for innovation.

An annual list released by "u.s. news and world report" moved purdue (up a spot from last year..

The university is now ranked 5-th after moving above stanford..

More than 1-thousand 500 schools across the country were surveyed..

The report also released an overall ranking..

Purdue ranked 53-rd on that list..

Provost of the university, jay akridge, credits purdue's new impact learning system among other efforts for the ranking..

Jay -- these many different initiatives that we have been able to launch, our faculty and staff have been able to support, it starts to add up to a package that i think people pay attention to at different schools across the country.

Purdue was the (only school from the big ten conference to make the report's top ten insititutions..

Mackey arena will serve as an early voting center for the 20-20