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The school has grown. At 600 acres of the main campus in Tempe, Arizona, the school operates out of three other campuses located in Glendale, Gilbert and downtown Phoenix.
ASU offers over 250 majors to undergraduate students, and more than 100 graduate programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees. These programs are divided into over a dozen colleges and schools, the largest of which is the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which houses nearly 30 programs and departments.
The campus is honored to include the last major building designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright - the Grady Gammage Auditorium named after the university's past president who became tenured in 1933 and maintained that position for 28 years. The Gammage auditorium is a remarkable building designed for the performing arts hosting events from concerts, theater and dance.
Many Galleries and Museums are found within the campus including the Nelson Fine Arts Center, Northlight Gallery,, Anthropology Museum, Harry Wood Art Gallery, The Gallery of Design, the Daniel E. Noble Science Library, Geology Museum and the Planetarium.
ASU is ranked 124th in the top tier of national research universities by the US News and World Report guide to US colleges. This ranking (which reflects admission standards, endowment, graduation rates and student-faculty ratio) is undoubtedly affected by ASU's status as a public university, and its requirement under Arizona law to guarantee admission to any Arizona resident who meets a minimal set of academic requirements.
However, the Barrett Honors College serves as a virtual university-within-a-university, and maintains strict admissions standards while providing a more rigorous curriculum with smaller classes and increased faculty interaction. This honors college is largely responsible for the 148 freshmen National Merit Scholars who chose ASU in 2007. In 2007 ASU also announced that it added 17 Fulbright students, and 15 NSEP students.
ASU has had a reputation as a "party school," and has been highly ranked in party-school lists published by Princeton Review (in addition to being joked about on such shows as The Simpsons and American Dad! In recent years, however, as ASU's academic rigor has increased, its party reputation has diminished. ASU no longer appears in several of the "top party school" rankings but is still considered as having a desirable social atmosphere for college students.
The school has grown. At 600 acres of the main campus in Tempe, Arizona, the school operates out of three other campuses located in Glendale, Gilbert and downtown Phoenix.
ASU offers over 250 majors to undergraduate students, and more than 100 graduate programs leading to masters and doctoral degrees. These programs are divided into over a dozen colleges and schools, the largest of which is the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which houses nearly 30 programs and departments.
The campus is honored to include the last major building designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright - the Grady Gammage Auditorium named after the university's past president who became tenured in 1933 and maintained that position for 28 years. The Gammage auditorium is a remarkable building designed for the performing arts hosting events from concerts, theater and dance.
Many Galleries and Museums are found within the campus including the Nelson Fine Arts Center, Northlight Gallery,, Anthropology Museum, Harry Wood Art Gallery, The Gallery of Design, the Daniel E. Noble Science Library, Geology Museum and the Planetarium.
ASU is ranked 124th in the top tier of national research universities by the US News and World Report guide to US colleges. This ranking (which reflects admission standards, endowment, graduation rates and student-faculty ratio) is undoubtedly affected by ASU's status as a public university, and its requirement under Arizona law to guarantee admission to any Arizona resident who meets a minimal set of academic requirements.
However, the Barrett Honors College serves as a virtual university-within-a-university, and maintains strict admissions standards while providing a more rigorous curriculum with smaller classes and increased faculty interaction. This honors college is largely responsible for the 148 freshmen National Merit Scholars who chose ASU in 2007. In 2007 ASU also announced that it added 17 Fulbright students, and 15 NSEP students.
ASU has had a reputation as a "party school," and has been highly ranked in party-school lists published by Princeton Review (in addition to being joked about on such shows as The Simpsons and American Dad! In recent years, however, as ASU's academic rigor has increased, its party reputation has diminished. ASU no longer appears in several of the "top party school" rankings but is still considered as having a desirable social atmosphere for college students.
Founded in 1885 as the Arizona State Teachers College, Arizona State University has grown to one of the largest schools in the country. In the begining after the Arizona State Legislature founded the school, classes met in a modest four-room brick structure on just 20 acres of cow pasture.
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