Admissions[edit]
Fall Freshman Statistics[70][71][72][73][74]
| 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicants | 30,696 | 29,722 | 29,785 | 28,304 | 27,089 |
| Admits | 26,986 | 26,452 | 25,795 | 25,616 | 24,473 |
| % Admitted | 87.9 | 88.9 | 86.6 | 90.5 | 90.3 |
| Enrolled | 9,265 | 9,254 | 9,544 | 9,344 | 9,707 |
| Avg GPA | 3.42 | 3.41 | 3.39 | 3.38 | 3.41 |
Admission to any of the public universities in Arizona is ensured to residents in the top 25% of their high-school class with a GPA of 3.0[75] in core competencies. In 2012-2013, ASU admitted 87% of all applicants and is considered a "selective" university by U.S. News and World Report.[76][77]Average GPA of high school graduates enrolling full-time is 3.42.[3]
Barrett, The Honors College is ranked 1st in the nation [78] among peer institutions (1300-1400 minimum SAT) and 5th in Overall Excellence among all universities. Like most of ASU's colleges and schools (e.g. Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, W.P. Carey School of Business, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, etc.[75]), Barrett College maintains much more strict admissions standards. Furthermore, Barrett College provides a more rigorous curriculum with smaller classes and increased faculty interaction.[79]Although there are no set minimum admissions criteria for Barrett College, the average GPA of incoming freshmen was 3.84, with average SAT scores of 1314/1600 and ACT scores of 29.[80] The Honors college enrolls 3523 undergraduate students, 613 of whom are National Merit Scholars.[81]
ASU currently enrolls 5,137 international students, 6.1% of the total student population.[82] The international student body represents 118 nations and more than 60 student clubs and organizations exist at ASU to serve the growing number of students from abroad. The increase in the number of international students in 2012 at ASU is a 16% increase over the 2011 figure.[83]
Academic programs[edit]
Main article: List of colleges and schools of Arizona State University
ASU offers over 250 majors to undergraduate students, and more than 100 graduate programs leading to numerous masters and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, design and arts, engineering, journalism, education, business, law, nursing, public policy, technology, and sustainability. These programs are divided into 16 colleges and schools which are spread across ASU's four campuses. ASU uses a plus-minus grading system with highest cumulative GPA awarded of 4.0 (at time of graduation).
Rankings[edit]
| University rankings | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| ARWU[84] | 46 |
| Forbes[85] | 305 |
| U.S. News & World Report[86] | 139 |
| Washington Monthly[87] | 45 |
| Global | |
| ARWU[88] | 79 |
| QS[89] | 330 |
| Times[90] | 127 |
ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 70th for public universities and 139th of 280 "national universities" by the 2013 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10[91] (4th) for "Up and Coming" universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.[92] In addition, ASU is ranked 79th in the world / 46th in the US by the Academic Ranking of World Universities[93] and was named as one of "America's Best College Buys" by Forbes magazine.[94]
In 2012, "ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions. Among other things, the high achievement in this area of excellence points to consistently strong advising and support, a logical outcome of Barrett (Arizona State University's honor college) investing more in honors staff than any other honors program that" Public University Honorsreviewed.
For its efforts to be a national leader in campus sustainability, ASU was named one of the top 20 "cool schools" by the Sierra Club,[95] was named to the "Green Honor Roll" by the Princeton Review,[96] and earned an "A-" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.[97]
Several of ASU's colleges and schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business[98] (along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems), the 22nd-ranked Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (Fine Arts),[99]the 12th-ranked School of Criminology and Criminal Justice,[100] the 29th-ranked Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law,[101] the 44th-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering (including five individual programs ranked in the top 30),[102] the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs,[103] the 24th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College,[104] the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health Innovation, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.[105] In addition, the individual Ph.D. programs in Psychology (36th),[106] Earth Science (17th),[107] and Economics (36th)[108] also earned high rankings. In 2011 ASU made the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) list as the 21st best school in the world for biological sciences.
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