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Arizona State

Arizona State University
Arizona State University seal.svg
Type Public research university
Established 1885
Endowment $612.6 million (2016)
President Michael M. Crow
Provost Mark Searle
Academic staff
3,095
Students 50,246 Tempe campus
11,277 Downtown Phoenix campus
4,173 Polytechnic campus
3,701 West campus
13,750 ASU Online
Undergraduates 67,507
Postgraduates 15,794
Location Tempe, Arizona, U.S.
Campus Urban
Tempe: 631.6 acres (2.556 km2)
Polytechnic: 612.99 acres (2.4807 km2)
West: 277.92 acres (1.1247 km2)
Downtown Phoenix: 27.57 acres (111,600 m2)
Colors Maroon and Gold
         
Nickname Sun Devils
Mascot Sparky
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I FBSPac-12
Website www.asu.edu
Arizona State University logo.svg
University rankings
National
ARWU 51-61
Forbes 278
U.S. News & World Report 129
Washington Monthly 31
Global
ARWU 101-150
QS 222
Times 189
U.S. News & World Report 121

Arizona State University (commonly referred to as ASU or Arizona State) is a public metropolitan research university on five campuses across the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. The 2016 university ratings by U.S. News & World Report rank ASU No. 1 among the Most Innovative Schools in America for the second year in a row.

ASU is the largest public university by enrollment in the U.S. It had approximately 82,060 students enrolled in 2014, including 66,309 undergraduate and 15,751 graduate students. ASU's charter, approved by the board of regents in 2014, is based on the "New American University" model created by ASU President Crow. It defines ASU as "a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but rather by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves."

ASU is classified as a research university with very high research activity (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Since 2005, ASU has been ranked among the top research universities, public and private, in the U.S. based on research output, innovation, development, research expenditures, number of awarded patents and awarded research grant proposals. The Center for Measuring University Performance ranks ASU 31st among top U.S. public research universities. ASU was classified as a Research I institute in 1994, making it one of the nation's newest major research universities (public or private).


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