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t once the youngest and the largest of the roughly 150 public and private research- Agrade universities in the nation, enrolls more than 68,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students on four cam- puses of equally high aspiration configured across metropolitan Phoenix, a region negotiating societal and environmental challenges that anticipate coming trends worldwide. ASU offers outstanding resources for study and research, including libraries and museums with impor- tant collections, studios and performing arts spaces for creative endeavor, and unsurpassed state-of-the-art scientific and technological laboratories and research facilities. ASU’s historic campus in Tempe, which serves more than 55,500 students, offers the feel of a college town in the midst of a dynamic metropolitan region. The West campus, which serves 10,300 students in northwest Phoenix, and Polytechnic campus, which serves 9,146 students in Mesa, offer more specialized missions. The Downtown Phoenix campus, which opened in fall 2006 as part of a larger plan to revitalize the city’s urban core, provides a university experience in a modern, urban atmosphere for more than 11,500 students. ASU is research-driven but focused on learning – teaching is carried out in a context that encourages the creation of new knowledge. The faculty includes Today’s Academic First Team of any public univer- ing an enduring niche in higher education, research recipients of prestigious academic and professional sity in the nation. and policy. ASU has also formed strategic partnerships awards, members of the various national academies ASU also champions diversity, boasting one of with: Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico; Sichuan and a Nobel Laureate. Research and discovery featur- the nation’s largest Hispanic student enrollments and University in China; Dublin City University in Ireland; ing ASU faculty can be found regularly in the nation’s among the most Native American faculty members Monash University top publications and journals. nationally. in ; and Nanyang Technological University The university annually attracts some of the nation’s The university is international in scope, welcoming in Singapore. top scholars, including a higher number of freshman students from all 50 states and nations across the ASU is an active partner with the private sector in National Merit Scholars than almost any other public globe, and engaging in educational partnerships world- initiatives to enhance the social well-being, economic university in the United States. ASU has the most wide. ASU has formed strategic partnerships with competitiveness, cultural depth, and quality of life of undergraduates (12) named to USA countries such as China where the university is secur- metropolitan Phoenix and the state. Academic Highlights at Arizona State University • ASU is a Doctoral/Research-Extensive I Institution, based on grades, leadership, activities and how the the highest distinction of the prestigious Carnegie students extend their intellectual talents beyond the Foundation classification system. classroom. • Enrollment for the fall 2009 semester was 68,064 • ASU students’ record of winning Fulbright with 55,552 students at the Tempe campus; 11,503 Fellowships is double the national average. Ten at the Downtown Phoenix campus, 10,380 at the percent of applicants nominated from any given West campus and 9,146 at the Polytechnic campus. university actually will be awarded a Fulbright, but • Of the 68,064 students, 54,277 were undergraduates ASU applicants win at the rate of 36 percent. In and 13,787 were graduate students. 2009, 17 students won Fulbrights to study or do • ASU students have more than 250 majors and more research abroad next year, a record for ASU, placing than 12,000 classes from which to choose on four the university 4th among public univer