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General
ASU’s Tempe campus has the nation’s largest enrollment on a single campus at 51,612 students.
ASU has 26 Native American faculty members, one of the highest numbers in the United States.
ASU enrolled 13,822 ethnic minority students this fall, more than any other Arizona college or university.
At 7,284, ASU’s Hispanic student population is one of the largest in the nation.
The overall proportion of minority faculty at ASU reached a record 22 percent in 2005, the highest in the university’s history.
A record 26 percent of the first-time ASU 2005 freshman class have an ethnic minority heritage.
The number of students graduating from ASU – 12,821 in the 2004 – 05 academic year – has grown by more than 1,000 over the last two years.
ASU’s freshman to sophomore retention rate is on the rise, growing from 76 to 79 percent for 2003 – 04.
ASU is ranked in the top 77 universities in the Western Hemisphere and in the top 152 worldwide by the Institute of Higher Education.
Economics professor Ed Prescott is the university’s first Nobel laureate, earning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2004.
Teachers educated at ASU have the highest pass rate for teacher certification among all Arizona universities.
Eighteen ASU faculty members have membership in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
More than $70 million in university need and merit-based aid was awarded in 2005.
The university need-based aid awards have increased by 189 percent since 2003.
ASU has dropped the class sizes for some of the most popular freshman-level classes, adding more than 200 sections of English compostion and first-year math in the last year.
Academic
ASU is a powerhouse in academic scholarship, consistently producing more winners of the most prestigious awards than almost any other public university.
Since 1992, only Harvard and Yale have had more students selected for USA Today’s ranking of the nation’s top 20 undergraduates.
Since 1994, three ASU students have won Rhodes Scholarships, and 10 have been awarded Marshall Scholarships.
ASU has been named a Truman Honor Institution for having 13 Truman Scholarship winners since 1991.
ASU students’ record of winning Fulbright Fellowships is double the national average.
In the past 12 years, 29 ASU students earned Goldwater Scholarships, the premier undergraduate award for science, math and engineering scholars.
Fifteen students since 1995 have won Udall Scholarships for pursuing careers in environmental policy, tribal policy and health care.
In 2005, 14 ASU students won Fulbright awards to study abroad, one of the best records for any public university.
In 2004 – 2005, ASU led the country with a record 13 National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarship recipients.
ASU ranks fourth nationally among public schools – and 12th overall – for the number of National Merit Scholars enrolled.
ASU ranks in the top 20 for National Merit Scholars, along with Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, MIT and Princeton.
ASU received the highest number of fellowships from Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology of any U.S. university in 2005.
ASU has 1,732 freshmen in the top 10 percent of their high school class, more than Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Stanford.
ASU is the fourth-highest producer of student Fulbright awards to study abroad of all U.S. colleges and universities.
ASU’s freshman class includes 72 National Hispanic Scholars, top-ranked students who are intensely recruited by schools all across the United States.
ASU enrolls 175 National Hispanic Scholars and 532 National Merit Scholars, making ASU the top choice for national scholars.
ASU’s Barrett Honors College freshmen have an average SAT score of 1,318 and include 155 National Merit Scholars.
In 2005, more than 396 graduate students were awarded fellowships to assist them with their graduate education.
In 2004, ASU was the only university in the country to receive three national grant awards from the Council of Graduate Schools, including the Peterson’s Award for Innovation in Promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community, which recognizes innovative programs that foster the recruitment and retention of minority graduate students.
ASU’s CRESMET is developing the next generation of math teachers with Arizona’s first program that lets students earn teaching and mathematics degrees simultaneously.
Research and Economic Development
ASU is “academically, a rising star in the world of research,” says Princeton Review’s 2006 edition of “The Best 361 Colleges.”
ASU has built or acquired more than 1 million square feet of research space in less than three years.
With the “Welcome to Mars” exhibit in 2005, ASU became the first non-Chinese institution to participate in China’s Science and Technology Week, the largest science outreach activity in the world.
Mars expert Phil Christensen, an ASU geological sciences professor, is the only scientist to have designed four remote sensing instruments to send data back to Earth simultaneously from another planet.
Dancer Trisha Brown and ASU’s Arts Media and Engineering program created an original computer-enhanced performance that premiered in New York’s Lincoln Center in 2005.
ASU’s “Decision Center for a Desert City” is the largest grant ever issued by the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Directorate.
ASU runs one of the National Science Foundation’s two urban Long Term Ecological Research Centers, studying the interaction between metropolitan Phoenix and the underlying ecosystem.
ASU was awarded $43.6 million by the Army to lead the country’s primary industry-government-academic consortium developing a new generation of flexible display technology.
ASU Technopolis, an outreach of ASU’s technology transfer program, has provided education, coaching, mentoring and connecting to more than 300 entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs and companies working with the technology incubator ASU Technopolis have received more than $12 million in grants, contracts and investments over the past two years.
ASU is at the forefront of American universities supporting student entrepreneurs, investing $200,000 each year in seed funding through the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative.
The Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative at ASU is one of the most comprehensive university programs of its kind.
ASU’s Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (CRESMET) is Arizona’s premier source of research for improving student performance in math and science.
More scientists, mathematicians and engineers work on education research through ASU’s CRESMET than in almost any other university.
Some 50,000 Arizona high school students will have ASU’s CRESMET to thank for training their teachers in research-sound methods of teaching math and science.
The Biodesign Institute at ASU has become the Phoenix metropolitan region’s largest generator of federal biomedical research funding.
ASU is the only state university in Arizona researching team performance relating to unmanned aerial vehicles, and aviation training and vision perception relating to flight.
ASU is one of the only universities in the nation to have four active Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) programs funded by the National Science Foundation to provide interdisciplinary graduate training for students in the sciences, mathematics, engineering or technology.
ASU’s College of Technology and Applied Sciences is the only higher education institution in the state to offer a fully operational semiconductor fabrication laboratory.
ASU’s Polytechnic campus has one of the only three testing labs for solar panels in the world.
Outreach
KAET/Channel 8, ASU’s PBS affiliate, reaches about 1.7 million viewers each week.
KAET/Channel 8 consistently ranks among the most viewed public television stations per capita in the country.
KAET/Channel 8 is writing Arizona’s history on television through the Arizona Collection, a series of programs celebrating the people, places and history of our state.
ASU has more than 319 community outreach programs in 449 locations throughout the state.
All of ASU’s campuses provide community outreach activities and programs, with 130 participating academic and administrative units.
The ASU in the Community Web site (http://community.uui.asu.edu) offers the most comprehensive list of ASU community outreach programs.
ASU student-athletes performed 1,300 hours of community service in the last year, touching the lives of more than 40,000 people. Every team engaged some type of community service.
ASU’s community outreach in Arizona spans from the White Mountain Apache Indian Community in the north to Nogales in the south, and from Tonopah in the west to Superior in the east.
Athletic
ASU is the only university in the nation that issues a jersey patch to recognize academic achievement for its football players.
ASU is the only university to fund a character education program for its football student-athletes.
ASU’s athletic department finished the 2004 – 2005 season No. 11 in the U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings for overall sports excellence.
By the end of the 2004 – 2005 year, 18 of 22 sports at ASU participated in postseason competition.
ASU had 18 Pac-10 individual champions and seven Pac-10 conference players of the year in 2004 – 2005.
The 2004 – 2005 team GPA for the women’s soccer team was No. 17 in the nation among all Division I soccer programs.
ASU men’s basketball has had at least one player on the Pac-10 All-Academic team each of the past five seasons.
ASU’s men’s golf team has posted nine NCAA top-10 finishes in Randy Lein’s 13 years as head coach, tied for the best mark in the nation.
For the past four years, ASU has been in the top seven in the country and No. 1 in the Pac-10 for most Academic All-Americans.
Twenty-one percent (110) of all ASU student-athletes were named to their respective Pac-10 all-academic teams in 2004 – 2005.
Twelve ASU student athletes earned academic All-American honors in 2004 – 2005.
During 2004 – 2005, 65 percent (335) of all ASU student-athletes earned a 3.0 or above term or cumulative GPA.
Forty-one percent of all ASU student-athletes have a 3.0 or above cumulative GPA.
Thirty-nine student-athletes had a fall or spring semester GPA of 4.0. Eight have 4.0 cumulative GPAs.
ASU has 13 athletic teams, including all women’s teams, with an average cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above.
Colleges/Schools
ASU has nationally ranked programs in business, engineering, education, fine arts and other fields.
ASU’s Barrett Honors College was named “Best of America” by the editors of Reader’s Digest in 2005.
The W. P. Carey School of Business is in the top 10 nationally for number of faculty with doctoral degrees.
The W. P. Carey School of Business is in the top 10 percent nationally for quality of faculty research.
The W. P. Carey School of Business has five departments in the top 20 rankings of U.S. News and World Report: supply chain management (No. 3), information systems (No. 15), accounting (No. 16), marketing (No. 18), management (No. 19).
The W. P. Carey School of Business is one of the nation’s largest business schools, with 160 tenured and tenure-track faculty.
The W. P. Carey School of Business has more than 1,000 graduate and 2,600 upper-division undergraduate students, plus more than 59,000 alumni.
The Financial Times ranks the W. P. Carey School of Business No. 21 in the world for doctoral programs and No. 33 for custom education programs for executives.
In the last two years, the University Graduate Scholar Fellowship program has provided 114 students with educational awards to help fund their graduate education at ASU.
Alumni
Seventy-five percent of ASU’s alumni worldwide are under the age of 45.
Seventy-nine percent of ASU’s alumni in Arizona are under the age of 45.
There are almost 260,000 living ASU alumni worldwide.
More than 162,000 ASU alumni live in Arizona.
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