Science Technology Engineering and Math Programs at Arizona State University 2020 STEM Report Ask An Anthropologist ASU Brain Fair

Many resources on the web provide The ASU Brain Fair events are facts about how we became human, the brainchild of ASU professor but too few provide classroom Heather Bimonte-Nelson, director teachers with content that engages of the Department of Psychology’s young people in human origins and Behavioral Neuroscience of Memory the scientific method. Inspired by Ask and Aging Lab. The ASU Brain Fair A Biologist, Ask An Anthropologist outreach events have taught more aspires to build an online community than 10,000 elementary school of science and social studies children from across the valley about educators focused on middle- and science, brains, neurons and the high-school learners. News stories importance of college. The science of and activities, translations to Spanish the brain goes hand-in-hand with the ASU Open Door Arizona FIRST®LEGO® League and links to Next Generation Science message that Bimonte-Nelson aims Standards categories will expand to get across: “You are responsible this resource and provide teachers for making the decisions which will and their students with invaluable affect your future. Your brain makes each outing offers a window into the community involvement and friendly tools to investigate our ancient those decisions. Education gives creative energy that powers a world- STEM Partner Programs sportsmanship. In 2020, 260 teams past. The site is supported by the you knowledge and nourishes the class university. Visitors can go back participated in league activities and ASU Institute of Human Origins. brain, and knowledge is power.” to medieval times, learn calligraphy Arizona State University constantly strives to better connect with and more than 700 students from 98 askananthropologist.asu.edu The events are led by Bimonte- and experience science, math, contribute to the STEM community. One way the university does this is teams went on to compete at the state Nelson and her laboratory students, physics, green energy, biomedicine, championship tournament, sponsored and many scientists from the forensics, pottery-making, art through partner programs supported by university initiatives or with National by the Ira A. Fulton Schools of psychology department and across and robotics, space exploration, Science Foundation funding. ASU’s K-12 science, technology, engineering Engineering. outreach.engineering. ASU contribute to these outreach nursing, sustainability and more. asu.edu/azfll endeavors. The ASU Brain Fair events This free event attracts more than and mathematics programs are part of hundreds of community engagement include Brain Booths at local high 40,000 members of the community programs across the valley designed to tap into and inspire early STEM school science and career fairs as to the ASU campuses each year. Ask A Biologist well as at community events such opendoor.asu.edu interests, from summer programs to world-class museums, internships, as Comicon and Fan Fusion, and events and K-12 activities and teacher training. Ask A Biologist is a web-based K-12 classroom visits to grades K-12. There science education program that are also science career panels where engages preK-12 students, teachers, high school students are bused to Arizona Geographic Alliance and other local, national and state parents, home-schoolers and lifelong ASU to communicate directly with groups. Membership totals more learners. Started in 1997, this award- scientists about science-related Arizona Geographic Alliance than 3,800 educators. In the last 18 winning website is now visited more careers. These events to foster the strengthens geography education years, the 645 workshops and 450 than 18.2 million times a year and was wonders of science and power of in Arizona. The alliance receives online lessons have impacted 20,000 used in more than 7,000 classrooms knowledge are in celebration of Brain support from grants and ASU’s teachers who are instructing 930,000 in 2019. Ask A Biologist offers stories Awareness Week, a campaign to School of Geographical Science students. geoalliance.asu.edu/ of cutting-edge science, profiles increase public awareness about the and Urban Planning. The alliance azga of scientists, online games, image brain associated with the Society ASU Preparatory partners with the National Council galleries, puzzles, coloring pages, for Neuroscience. psychology.asu. Academy for Geography Education, National podcasts, classroom lessons and edu/content/brain-fairs-children Geographic Education Foundation Arizona FIRST® LEGO® more. At the core of this multimedia League program is the Ask A Question Ask An Anthropologist: feature, which has answered more Human Skeleton Anatomy ASU Open Door ASU Preparatory Academy ® ® Arizona Geographic Arizona FIRST LEGO League is than 42,000 nonhomework questions activity available Alliance an exciting and fun, global robotics posed to Dr. Biology. Dr. Biology for download for fun With more than 360 activities and The ASU Preparatory Academy coloring while learning. program created to get children is a portal through which working performances in a festival of the is a tuition-free network of K-12 ages 9 to 14 excited about science, scientists and graduate students Did you know that the sciences, culture, engineering, charter schools. Whether they are technology, engineering, art and volunteer their knowledge and time human skeleton has more humanities, health and the arts, ASU building a robot, creating a solar than 200 bones? math. The league uses theme- to support the community’s Q&A Open Door is held in February on machine or developing solutions based challenges to help young activity. Now used in every country in the Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic, to save the earth’s resources, ASU students discover the fun in solving the world, this educational resource Tempe and West campuses. A Prep’s more than 3,000 students real-world problems through is visited by more than 49,000 people signature event of the Arizona SciTech receive personalized attention, robots, research projects and daily and has materials in 18 different Festival and rated one of the top project-based learning and build teamwork and emphasizes learning, languages. askabiologist.asu.edu events since it was founded in 2012, critical thinking skills. A university-

2 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 3 embedded academic program, ASU plants, shells, fish, reptiles, birds journey blends digital experiences Prep empowers students to complete and mammals are also represented. (3D immersive games, career and college, compete globally and In addition, the center manages the personality inventories, online contribute to their communities. ASU National Ecological Observatory mentors) with real-world experiences, Prep Digital also offers a high school Network Biorepository, which such as hands-on STEM activities, and university learning environment accommodates 110,000 diverse interviewing professionals, completing 100% online, including full-time or organismal samples annually. college and scholarship applications part-time classes. asuprep.asu.edu NEON is a 30-year project, and and more. gamesandimpact.org/ and asuprepdigital.org the biorepository at ASU supports taiga_river and gamesandimpact. its continental-scale environmental org/initiatives/stem-mio monitoring and forecasting research. All collections are actively engaged in learning and outreach activities, including K-12 and lifelong learning programs that reach 3,000 to 5,000 community members each year. biokic.asu.edu

Center for Games and Impact ASU Prep Poly STEM Academy ASU Prep Poly STEM ASU’s Center for Games and Impact Academy works with schools in Arizona to leverage the power of game- The STEM Academy has two based learning to implement a new school sites, an elementary school curriculum that is personally engaging CyberDay4Girls and a middle school, on the ASU and supports deep learning. The Polytechnic campus. Designed for center, directed by Professor Sasha grades K-7, the academy prepares Barab, produced the Mystery of students to partner with ASU Taiga River and Boone’s Meadow. COMPUGIRLS providing underserved girls five years’ CyberDay4Girls researchers and gain hands-on Taiga River centers on a water quality worth of experiences that prepare experience. The STEM Academy mystery to teach scientific argument An award-winning, culturally them for entering and persisting in IT Because women are typically offers rigorous training in science, to students 10 to 14 years old. Using responsive technology program and cybersecurity careers that can underrepresented in cybersecurity math, English and Spanish, music, this game, students take on the role Center for Advanced for girls from grades 8-12, advance their communities. cgest. roles, ASU’s CyberDay4Girls art, leadership, social studies and of an environmental scientist who Studies in Global COMPUGIRLS blends the learning asu.edu/compugirls introduces middle-school girls to physical education. asuprep.asu. embarks on a scientific investigation; Education of advanced computational skills the field of cybersecurity, hosted by edu/schools/polystem the students use water quality with key areas of social justice the ASU Global Security Initiative indicators to solve the problem of Teacher training in the community to boost aptitude and interest Cryptorally in partnership with IBM. Held on dying fish in the Taiga River. Boone’s extends around the globe through the among girls in technology and ASU’s West campus, the event Biodiversity Knowledge Meadow is designed to teach middle- Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College computer sciences. Attendees of Cryptography, the science of attracts hundreds of girls who learn Integration Center school students about distance, rate and the Center for Advanced Studies COMPUGIRLS summer, after-school making and breaking codes and from experts about cryptography, and time, and trip planning, through in Global Education. The center and yearlong programs learn skills in ciphers, helps protect personal, blockchain, online safety and The Biodiversity Knowledge an immersive experience in which supports research projects around digital storytelling and documentary financial, proprietary and defense- cybersecurity careers. cec.asu.edu/ Integration Center works to they must leverage mathematics to the world — from China to Costa filmmaking, game design, virtual related information. Cryptorally events/cyber-day-4-girls generate understanding of life’s determine the best course of action Rica to Argentina — and offers worlds and robotics, supported by was designed by Nancy Childress, diversity, promotes the use of to save a wounded eagle. The center scalable professional development ASU’s Center for Gender Equity associate professor of the School informatics tools, and fosters direct also has launched the STEM Mio programs. These projects have drawn in Science and Technology and of Mathematical and Statistical Cybersecurity Education and virtual learning experiences program, powered by the center’s hundreds of leading educators and directed by Professor Kimberly Scott. Sciences. In 2019, 29 teams joined Consortium Biodiversity using global biodiversity specimens ThriveCast mobile-first, connected- administrators from countries around COMPUPOWER, an expansion of in a competition for college and high Knowledge and data. ASU’s biocollections boast growth platform. STEM Mio supports the world, including India, South COMPUGIRLS, is working within school teams, including eight middle Cybersecurity is a growing area of Integration Center nearly 3.5 million specimens among middle- and high-school Latino Sudan, Palestine and Mexico, as well 10 partner high schools in urban school Junior Cryptorally teams. concern in the world and it is critical nine natural history collections. One youth as they explore their personal as college students, such as those in and rural communities to develop Hosted annually in late October or to educate youth on computer of the largest is the Hasbrouck Insect passions, match those to STEM the MasterCard Foundation Scholars students’ technological and problem- November, rally competitions also safety. The Cybersecurity Education Collection, with close to 2.5 million futures, connect with Latino STEM Program from Ghana. education. solving skills and empowering them to include a lecture and student poster Consortium is a unit of ASU’s Global specimens, and the Vascular Plant mentors and gain the experiences asu.edu/faculty-and-research/ become community changemakers. session with students, teachers Security Initiatives that provides and Lichen Herbaria, with more that enable them to become strong centers-and-more/casge-home COMPUGIRLS-Cybersecurity is and faculty. math.asu.edu/about/ local middle-school teachers with than 450,000 specimens. Fossil college applicants. The STEM Mio the newest curriculum focused on community-outreach resources to enhance their cyber

4 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 5 education and teaching, including Earth and Space Exploration a middle-school curriculum that K-12 Field Trip program aligns with the Computer Science Cybersecurity State Standards for The School of Earth and Space Arizona. cec.asu.edu/educators Exploration K-12 Field Trip program is designed for science classes from kindergarten through high school. These half-day field trips are offered four days a week year-round and are best suited for students in fifth grade through junior high. The experience, provided by trained college students Gary K. Herberger Young and staff, includes a 3D astronomy Scholars Academy show and a schedule of activities designed to reinforce the spirit of scientific inquiry and exploration. Highlights of the tour include high- Ecology Explorers games that empower learners to world problems today. outreach. Gary K. Herberger Young tech labs, interactive exhibits, a Mars comprehend content through gesture- engineering.asu.edu/k-12- Scholars Academy Curiosity Rover Replica and one based learning. Led by Professor programs/epics-high of the largest meteorite collections Mina Johnson-Glenberg, the studio The Gary K. Herberger Young at a university in the world. Staff neighborhoods. Students learn specializes in video games and virtual Scholars Academy is a learning at the School of Earth and Space how to ask scientific questions, reality, curriculum development and Forensic Science Day environment designed for highly Deer Valley Petroglyph Exploration connect with every collect data, do data analysis and creating and assessing the efficacy gifted students in grades 7-12. It Preserve teacher who has booked a tour to contribute to scientific studies in of STEM and health science games is hosted by the Mary Lou Fulton customize the visit for their individual their local community. They can in formal and informal learning Teachers College and located on classes and to focus on topics share their discoveries about insects, environments. The studio hosts nine the ASU West campus. Designed Deer Valley Petroglyph relevant to what the students are plants, birds and landscapes with free learning games that range from for gifted students who thrive in a Preserve learning in the classroom. In a typical other researchers and students biology to the electric field, such as highly engaging learning environment, year, the K-12 Field Trip program in the Phoenix Metro area, to help Dragon Shockra, Blindman’s Bluff the academy personalizes students’ The preserve site is considered a impacts 10,000 students from more them understand more about their and Alien Health. Catch a Mimic is education by merging individual’s natural collection with more than than 100 schools. sese.asu.edu/ urban ecosystems. From 2015 to the most recent VR for STEM game academic talents and interests 1,500 petroglyphs and a 47-acre public-engagement/k12-field- 2019, the program served more for grades 4-12; it is free, funded by with advanced college preparatory nature preserve. Field trips for trip-program than 6,000 local students and 300 the National Science Foundation and coursework and mentorship traditional and nontraditional K-12 teachers. sustainability.asu.edu/ hosted in the Oculus VR store for opportunities. The academy groups are offered between April and ecologyexplorers education. embodied-games.com provides strong support for creating, October; students enjoy interactive Ecology Explorers Forensic Science Day performing, inventing and sharing tours of the museum, nature preserve and Forensic Camp concepts with others with relatively and petroglyphs, and activities. Based out of the Julie Ann Wrigley Embodied Games EPICS low barriers to artistic expression and In addition, throughout the year, Global Institute of Sustainability, ASU Forensic Science Day promotes the use of technology, data, the preserve offers Girl Scout and Ecology Explorers provides Embodied Games is an award- Engineering Projects in Community introduces high school students from networking, negotiation, creativity Boy Scout badge days that include Phoenix area K-12 teachers and winning educational game studio Service is a national award-winning around Arizona to forensic science and other methods to problem solve. lectures, tours, hands-on research students the opportunity to learn by creating immersive, research-backed social entrepreneurship program programs in Arizona. Participants herbergeracademy.asu.edu/ activities and crafts. shesc.asu.edu/ conducting real scientific research experiences and providing education offered to not only ASU engineering go to the ASU West campus, speak about-academy/overview dvpp in their schoolyards, backyards and through vibrant and collaborative students but also to STEM students with professionals currently working from 30 Arizona high schools and in the forensic sciences in research middle schools. Teams design, and crime laboratories, and meet Graduate Partners in build and deploy systems to solve ASU students and forensic faculty Science Education engineering-based problems for members. Summer Up Forensic charities, schools and other not-for- Camp brings students from grades Founded in 2005 by graduate students profit organizations. These students 8-12 to ASU’s New College of in ASU’s School of Life Sciences, become part of multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences this project-based science mentoring teams that take EPICS courses, for a week of lectures, labs and field outreach program’s graduate students design projects to tackle a real-world experiences to explore the science lead and teach weekly after-school problem, build communication skills and techniques performed in real science lessons and projects in five and develop lifelong appreciation for crime cases. newcollege.asu. middle schools in the Tempe and STEM and service learning. Students edu/forensic-science-day and Phoenix areas. There are 18 ASU Embodied Games aren’t waiting to graduate to make a summerup.asu.edu/camps/ graduate students hailing from life difference. They are tackling real- forensics sciences, earth and space exploration,

6 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 7 molecular sciences, and human Math Day and 3D planetarium shows, public talks, evolution and social change who Math Circle at ASU lab visits, meteorite testing, mission mentor 80 middle schoolers as they control visits and a full-scale replica develop their own research projects. High school students are invited to of the Mars Curiosity rover. Over the students The program is designed to train Math Day, a field-trip to ASU offering last 20 years, this free annual event what are ing about SCE ASU graduate students to become fun and challenging workshops taught has attracted 1,200 visitors annually. say NE better scientists, more experienced by internationally recognized faculty sese.asu.edu/public-engagement educators and superior science and enthusiastic graduate students. communicators, while empowering Students also listen to a special underserved middle school children presentation by a guest speaker SCience and ENgineering and building science proficiency in the and enjoy complimentary lunch and Experience (SCENE) Arizona community. gpse.asu.edu the chance to win some great raffle prizes. ASU’s School of Mathematics SCience and ENgineering and Statistical Sciences also hosts Experience provides Infiniscope the Math Circle, a mentoring program high school students, “There is no on the Tempe campus in which highly sophomores to seniors, doubt that SCENE was a Created by the School of Earth motivated high school students meet opportunities to do and Space Exploration’s Center for to work on challenging mathematical research in state-of- life changing experience for me Education Through eXploration, the problems under the guidance of the art labs at ASU. that propelled me into the scientific NASA-funded Infiniscope project world-class research mathematicians. With the guidance world. SCENE is the program that makes the vastness of space and math.asu.edu/mathday2019 and of professors and space exploration inviting, accessible, math.la.asu.edu/~mathcircle/ university students, allowed me to contribute to and interactive for K-12 educators and Infiniscope index.php students develop the scientific community and their students. Infiniscope provides and answer their gave me the desire to a virtual space to connect users own original research with space exploration experiences School of Earth and Space questions and compete continue research in that inspire curiosity, excitement, Joaquín Bustoz and to enhance their prospects for for Meteorite Studies, and the Lunar Exploration Day in regional and national science.” engagement and confidence. Math-Science Honors future academic success. Students Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera science competitions. Infiniscope’s next-generation Program are registered in a university-level Science Operations Center. sese. Earth and Space Exploration Day is a SCENE is offered in several exploratory science activities and mathematics course for credit and asu.edu/public-engagement/3-d- daylong free event open to the public. disciplines: biodesign, engineering, lessons are designed to empower The Joaquín Bustoz Math-Science there is no cost to the student. The astronomy The main features are interactive solid state science, life sciences K-12 educators to collaborate, create Honors Program is an intense program celebrated its 35th year in hands-on science exhibits and and sustainability. eoss.asu.edu/ and customize learning activities for academic program that offers 2020 and has touched the lives of activities with faculty and students, access/scene their students using NASA data and motivated students in grades 10-12 more than 2,800 students. jbmshp. Mary Lou Fulton Teachers NASA subject matter experts. The the outstanding opportunity to asu.edu College STEM Camp adaptive learning lessons can be begin university mathematics and catered to many different levels of science studies before graduating Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s students and are a vital component high school. This free, residential Marston Exploration STEM Camp is funded by the to ensuring the future of successful program is designed to provide a Theater U.S. Department of Education and science education. infiniscope.org successful university experience for attended by more than 450 veteran students who are underrepresented The Marston Exploration Theater and first-year teaching professionals in the mathematics and science fields offers shows two times a week each summer. The collaborative with Definiti SkySkan Planetarium experience offers high-energy and technology that renders Earth interactive learning experiences. The Joaquín Bustoz and space science themes in 3D goals of the camp are threefold: to Math-Science Honors Program stereographic vision. Through a empower educators to teach STEM live narrated journey, visitors are through problem-based learning, learn transported from Earth to the cosmic how to use community resources to research of exoplanets. Along the provide meaningful experiences, and way, the show features the latest understand how to enhance lessons discoveries in space exploration: to build discipline-specific academic from satellites orbiting the Earth and language. In addition to new STEM cameras orbiting the Moon to space knowledge, educators walk away telescopes gathering light from with tools that support all learners distant objects beyond this galaxy. in developing language and STEM In addition, the School of Earth and content in tandem. education.asu. Space Exploration hosts the Gallery edu/iteachells/stem-camp Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College STEM Camp: 2019 camp of Scientific Exploration, the Center attended by over 450 veteran and first-year teaching professionals.

8 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 9 to live on the ASU Downtown Phoenix Sustainability Science and its practical applications in K-12 campus for a week while experiencing Education schools and their communities. a variety of interprofessional health- The academy engages teachers, related activities; they also enjoy tours The Pathfinder Center in ASU’s administrators, students, parents of health care facilities in Arizona. Biodesign Institute hosts the ongoing and community members to The college also offers Camp Crave, Sustainability Science Education transform schools into places Future Health Leaders and Health Project. Under the leadership of where sustainability is learned Ninja Warrior summer programs. Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, Annie and lived. The goal is to build the chs.asu.edu/summer-programs/ Hale, director of research and next generation of sustainability summer-health-institute development, elevates sustainability practitioners. The academy offers science education for preservice a robust portfolio of professional In Tempe, experiences include the and in-service teachers. Professional development opportunities for Digital Culture Summer Institute, development courses, such as the teachers of all subjects and grades. the Young Adult Writing Program, new online Integrating Sustainability sustainabilitysolutions.asu.edu/ iD Tech Camps, Clubes de Ciencia Science into the Classroom course, programs/teachersacademy Arizona and, in Fulton Schools of cultivate the skills and strategies Engineering, the Fulton Summer necessary for incorporating Young Engineers Shape Sonia Kovalevsky High School the World Mathematics Day Academy with offerings that range sustainability science topics across from app and game camps to coding, common curricula for pre-K-12. VR and robotics in half-day, full-day The goal is to create crosswalk Young Engineers Shape the World is or overnight camps. There is also opportunities for making sustainability a two-year program offered by ASU’s Barrett Summer Scholars, a program science relevant in subjects such as Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day on ASU’s West campus can borrow for their classes. StarLab designed for academically talented English language arts, literacy, history, that takes place during out-of-school High School engages students from grades is used more than 150 days annually and motivated students hosted on all social studies, science, art, drama time. The program helps high-school Mathematics 9-12 in hands-on math activities, and can accommodate up to 300 ASU campuses. and math. There is also a self-paced students view engineering as a socially Day with a keynote talk and with lunch, participants on a typical day of • eoss.asu.edu/bss microcredit course, Values Thinking, relevant profession. Through a variety T-shirts and mathematical take- operation. Starlab is used regularly that challenges teachers to reflect on of weekend events, participants • eoss.asu.edu/access/ STEM ends homes. newcollege.asu.edu/ in the Phoenix metropolitan area and their personal values and consider spend time exploring individual fields programs/summer with M for sonia-kovalevsky-high-school- also in rural central Arizona as well as how to mobilize this type of thinking of engineering through hands-on mathematics, mathematics-day or newcollege. by the White Mountain Apache Nation • english.asu.edu/yawp with their students. sse.asu.edu activities that are developed to help a foundation asu.edu/destinationwest and the Navajo Nation. StarLab usage • outreach.engineering.asu.edu/ shape their engineering identity. of learning includes astronomy training for staff summer-programs The Rob and Melanie Walton Aimed at high school sophomores and for every SolarSPELL and teachers. In Native American Sustainability Teacher’s juniors, this program seeks to increase student. Sonia schools, ASU incorporates indigenous • summer.digitalculture.asu.edu Academy the diversity of students pursuing Kovalevsky, Many islands in the Pacific Ocean understanding (knowledge ways) • idtech.com/locations/arizona- engineering by attracting female and the first woman lack two things that are essential for about the sky into the experience, to summer-camps/arizona-state- The Rob and Melanie Walton first-generation students from low- to receive a PhD accessing information and performing engage with communities in an equal university Sustainability Teachers’ Academy income families. youngengineers. in mathematics and a educational pursuits: a library and and respectful manner. promotes sustainability education engineering.asu.edu strong proponent of higher the internet. Associate Professor education for women, gives us reason Laura Hosman in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Summer Programs to celebrate women in math. Now Schools of Engineering and the at ASU in its 10th year, Sonia Kovalevsky College for Global Futures created a rugged, portable solar-powered ASU offers a range of summer STEM digital library, over an offline WiFi programs and more for youth in

SolarSPELL hotspot, designed to simulate an grades 6-12. online experience, hosting curated educational resources. The 365 There are SummerUP camps on West SolarSPELL libraries deployed in campus in which high school students eight countries reach more than experience life as a college student 87,000 people. solarspell.org and do college-level coursework in 10 academic tracks, from sustainability and coding to forensics and health. StarLab Portable summerup.asu.edu Planetarium On the Downtown Phoenix campus, The Starlab is a portable, inflatable the College of Health Solutions’ The Rob and Melanie Walton Sustainability Teacher’s Academy planetarium that staff can transport to Summer Health Institute@ASU events and schools or that teachers provides 12th graders the opportunity

10 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 11 STEM Enrollment Trends Degrees Awarded Trends Arizona State University has seen extreme growth in STEM disciplines. In Fall 2009, STEM disciplines on With continued increases in enrollment, STEM degrees awarded have also steadily increased at ASU. In the 2009-2010 ASU campuses reached 18,305 students. By Fall 2019, STEM enrollments topped 30,347 students. In academic year, the total degrees awarded were 3,692. By 2018-2019, STEM degrees awarded more than doubled. STEM this 10-year period, minority enrollment more than doubled, while enrollment by women increased more degrees represent 38% of all degrees awarded in 2018-2019 from ASU’s metropolitan campuses. than 50%.

Enrollment in STEM-related disciplines* Degrees* awarded in STEM-related disciplines

30,000 8,000 All students Female students STEM-related disciplines include: Doctoral The academic year begins in computer science, engineering, 7,000 summer and includes the following 25,000 Minority students First-year students Master’s mathematics, psychology, sciences fall and spring terms. 6,000 Bachelor’s (life and biological sciences, 20,000 geosciences, physical sciences), and 5,000 15,000 technologies (engineering technology, 4,000 Degree counts are based on IPEDS science technology, educational campus reporting. 3,000 10,000 technology, digital communication). 2,000 5,000 Enrollment counts are based on 1,000 IPEDS campus reporting. 0 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009-102010-11 2011-122012-13 2013-142014-15 2015-162016-17 2017-182018-19

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 All students 18,305 20,176 21,514 22,513 23,449 25,405 26,474 27,558 28,111 28,866 30,347 Doctoral 219 230 243 251 251 281 286 293 299 299 Minority students 5,017 6,006 6,659 7,111 7,503 8,228 8,710 9,250 9,801 10,603 11,684 Master’s 900 944 1,137 1,289 1,504 1,883 2,035 1,931 1,850 1,915 Female students 7,364 8,063 8,315 8,437 8,309 8,895 9,268 9,682 10,287 10,907 11,840 Bachelor’s 2,573 2,831 3,345 3,521 3,742 3,870 4,150 4,294 4,696 5,159 First-time, first-year 2,737 3,212 3,208 3,542 3,573 4,143 4,402 4,548 4,582 5,212 5,876 Totals 3,692 4,005 4,725 5,061 5,497 6,034 6,471 6,518 6,845 7,373

Enrollment trends by STEM-related disciplines* Degrees* awarded to minorities in STEM-related disciplines 35,000 2,500 Technologies Mathematics STEM-related disciplines include: Doctoral The academic year begins in 30,000 Science Engineering computer science, engineering, Master’s summer and includes the following Psychology Computer science mathematics, psychology, sciences 2,000 Bachelor’s fall and spring terms. 25,000 (life and biological sciences, geosciences, physical sciences), and 1,500 20,000 technologies (engineering technology, Degree counts are based on science technology, educational IPEDS campus reporting. 15,000 1,000 technology, digital communication). 10,000 Enrollment counts are based on 500 5,000 IPEDS campus reporting.

0 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009-102010-11 2011-12 2012-132013-14 2014-152015-16 2016-172017-18 2018-19

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 Technologies 1,442 1,621 1,747 1,961 1,682 1,533 1,396 1,367 1,440 1,455 1,511 Doctoral 29 30 30 22 29 32 33 29 48 33 Science 6,449 6,982 7,294 7,343 7,252 7,413 7,435 7,557 7,828 8,087 8,406 Master’s 103 136 177 200 229 244 296 281 219 260 Phychology 2,936 3,313 3,272 2,272 2,362 2,176 2,134 2,148 2,406 2,657 3,097 Bachelor’s 641 778 1,021 1,101 1,228 1,321 1,532 1,563 1,671 1,891 Mathematics 732 766 769 796 859 1,006 1,111 1,159 1,206 1,241 1,211 Totals 773 944 1,228 1,323 1,486 1,597 1,861 1,873 1,938 2,184 Engineering 5,297 5,907 6,665 7,453 8,744 10,238 10,907 11,310 10,876 10,731 10,558 Computer science 1,449 1,587 1,767 2,163 2,550 3,039 3,491 4,017 4,355 4,695 5,564

*Arizona Board of Regents defined STEM degrees and disciplines. 12 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 13 ASU is No. 1 for A top producer of No. 1 in the U.S. and Innovation in the U.S. Fulbright Student No. 5 in world for ahead of Stanford, MIT, Harvard Scholars and Peace global impact and Cornell Corps volunteers – Times Higher Education 2020 This is where Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners teach master learners. ASU’s This is where nationally and internationally ranked programs prepare next-generation world-class faculty is ranked in the top 10 No. 1 master’s in in the nation for a strong commitment to innovators to thrive while advancing undergraduate teaching, ahead of Stanford pioneering research, strategic partnerships, management, ASU- and Yale. entrepreneurship and economic Thunderbird School of – U.S. News & World Report 2019 development. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020 Global Management – Times Higher Education/Wall Street From engineering to It’s also about accessibility, affordability Journal 2019 and diversity. ASU is No. 2 in the U.S. for earth sciences, top 10 online bachelor’s degree programs (U.S. in the nation in New & World Report 2020) and pioneered Top 10 in the U.S. for What. research the ASU-Starbucks’ and ASU-Uber’s undergraduate teaching partnerships in online college achievement. The National Science Foundation ASU is also a top choice by international ahead of Stanford, Notre Dame and Yale rated ASU’s anthropology and also students. Students come to ASU to make a – U.S. News & World Report, 2020 makes ASU. geological and earth sciences No. 1 and difference in the world. transdisciplinary sciences No. 2 in research expenditures. Social sciences, No. 4; Top 10 in the world humanities and political sciences, No. 5; Among the best for patents exceptional?. electrical, electronic and communications graduate schools in engineering, No. 8; and psychology ranked ahead of Purdue, Columbia and No. 10. ASU was also in the top 5 nationally the U.S. Northwestern University – U.S. National Academy of Inventors for NASA-funded expenditures, ahead U.S. News & World Report ranked 30 of and the Intellectual Property Owners of Stanford, UCLA, Georgia Tech and ASU’s graduate programs as the top 10 in Association, 2018 University of Arizona, and No. 7 for Health the nation. These include five degrees and Human Services expenditures. rated No. 1 in online graduate programs: the MBA program in general management and MBA program in marketing Top 10 in the U.S. for Joining more than (W. P. Carey School of Business) and first-year experiences master’s degrees in curriculum and 500,000 ASU alumni ahead of Yale, Princeton and University instruction and instructional media (Mary of Texas positions you to be an Lou Fulton Teachers College) and electrical – U.S. News & World Report, 2020 agent for change. engineering (Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. ASU is also No. 1 in homeland and national security and emergency Top 10 university management (Watts College for Public Service and Community Engagement). chosen by international students ahead of UCLA, UC-Berkeley and University of Washington – Institute of International Education, 2019

14 | STEM PROGRAMS AT ASU 2020 STEM REPORT | 15 Where we are Arizona State University is located in the Phoenix metropolitan area. As the fifth-largest city in the United States, Phoenix offers big- city amenities like sports venues, cultural attractions, restaurants and shopping in a breathtaking desert backdrop.

Phoenix is ranked among the 10 best cities for new graduates because of its well-paying jobs, affordable lifestyle and active social scene, according to Kiplinger. And Forbes ranks Arizona best in the Downtown nation for future job growth. Phoenix Polytechnic Distinctive campus campus campuses across metro Phoenix

While each ASU campus is a unique learning environment, each one also offers contemporary classrooms and laboratory space, state-of-the-art libraries, fitness and dining facilities, and student support services. All share the same commitment to excellence in academics. campus.asu.edu

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