Arizona State University (ASU), a public research university founded in 1885, is the largest public university in the United States by enrollment. ASU enrolls nearly 100,000 students across 16 colleges and schools. Arizona State University offers a variety of bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. ASU is one of the world’s top universities for business incubation.
The university provides an array of highly ranked graduate programs. Arizona State University offers about 90 undergraduate and graduate (including doctoral) degree programs, as well as more than a dozen certificate programs through ASU Online. ASU Online’s degree offerings include bachelor’s degrees in art history, business, film, and justice studies. The university also offers master’s degrees in legal studies, nutrition, English, electrical engineering, and more.
Students also can pursue doctoral degrees in behavioral health and leadership and innovation.
ASU Online students have access to enrollment counselors, academic advisers, and success coaches. ASU Online offers six start dates each year.
Online students have flexibility to complete coursework on their own schedule. Some ASU Online courses require specific log-on times, and most have set assignments and deadlines.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes Arizona State University as a research university with very high research activity. ASU consistently ranks among the top 20 universities, which don’t have a traditional medical school, for research expenditures.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Arizona State University-Tempe #129 in National Universities in its 2015 edition of Best Colleges. Arizona State University also tied for #63 in Top Public Schools and #143 in Best Global Universities. The magazine also listed Arizona State #27 in Best Business Schools.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 (provided by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University) ranked Arizona State University #88. Times Higher Education listed Arizona State University #182 in its World University Rankings 2014–2015, while Forbes ranked the university #140 among Research Universities.
Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business ranked #92 in Bloomberg Business’s 2014 Undergraduate Business School Programs list. Princeton Review included Arizona State University in its 2015 Best 379 Colleges list.
The respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business provides accreditation to Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. Arizona State University also holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission.
