ASU rankings

ASU has topped U.S. News & World Report’s “Most Innovative Schools” list since the inception of the category in 2016. ASU again placed ahead of MIT and Stanford on the list, based on a survey of peers. College presidents, provosts and admissions deans around the country nominated up to 10 colleges or universities that are making the most innovative improvements. Read more

ASU graduate programs place among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2022 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. Fourteen graduate programs rank among the top 10 in the country, including programs in law, education, business, public affairs, fine arts and others, with a total of 33 programs placing in the top 20. Read more.

ASU is ranked top in the nation and ninth in the world by Times Higher Education for advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, including global impact on poverty and hunger, developing solutions for clean water and energy and promoting gender equality. Read more.

For the past 10 years, ASU has been a top-producing university for elite scholars. This impressive list includes 279 Gilman Scholars, 191 Fulbright Scholars, 18 Goldwater Scholars, 14 Udall Scholars, 9 Gates Cambridge Scholars, 4 Marshall Scholars, 4 Truman Scholars, 2 Rhodes Scholars and 1 Churchill Scholar. Learn more.

Sun Devil Athletics again earns its highest NCAA Academic Progress Rate, second in the Pac-12 to Stanford. Women's tennis has earned a perfect 1000 annually since the 2003-04 start of the measurement, the only team in the sport among the Division I Power Five conferences to do so. Read more.

ASU makes the Fiske Guide to Colleges’ list of top 10 'Best Buy' public universities for quality in relation to cost and student debt. ASU is the only Arizona university selected for the top 10 Best Buy list and shares the accolade with other top public schools, including the University of Florida, Purdue University and the University of Washington.

ASU is ranked a top 10 university in the U.S. for first-year experiences, ahead of Princeton, Harvard and Notre Dame, by U.S. News & World Report. First-year students have access to unique programs that help them thrive including peer coaching, an interactive chatbot and Welcome Week activities. Read more.

A welcoming and supportive university community, along with innovative ways for international students to take classes, has led more than 13,000 students from 136 countries to call ASU their academic home. Read more.

Among the top 20 in the country, ASU has been a top producer of Fulbright awards every year for the past 11 years. In 2021, ASU is one of only 10 universities that are top producers of Fulbright awards for both students and faculty, along with New York University, the University of Michigan, The Ohio State University and the University of Pennsylvania. Read more.

The annual QS World University Rankings recognizes ASU as a top 10 university in the world for the quality of meaningful connections between potential employers and students — ahead of Princeton, MIT and Stanford, and others. ASU also earns the No. 17 ranking for the excellence of its partnerships with employers — ahead of Cornell, UCLA, Princeton and Harvard.

Arizona State University ranks top 10 nationally and #11 globally for U.S. patents awarded to universities in 2020, along with MIT, Stanford and Harvard. This notable ranking highlights ASU's entrepreneurial and innovative approach toward solving global challenges. Learn more.

ASU is ranked top 10 among U.S. universities for undergraduate teaching by U.S. News & World Report, ahead of Harvard, Stanford and Yale. This award recognizes universities demonstrating a strong commitment to high-quality undergraduate teaching. Read more.

ASU Online is among the top 10 for online bachelor's programs in the U.S. five years in a row, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. There are more than 200 online undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs designed by award-winning ASU faculty. The recognition is based on factors including engagement, services and technologies, faculty credentials and training, and expert opinion. Read more.

The Princeton Review ranks ASU a top U.S. university for undergraduate education in its "The Best 387 Colleges 2022" based on a survey of 154,000 students. Students praised the university for "innovation," the ability to “personalize every student’s experience” and "diversity" of the student body.

For the fifth consecutive year, ASU is a “Best for Vets” school, as ranked by the Military Times Group, publisher of the top-read news publications by U.S. military members. Read more.

One of the country's fastest-growing research universities, ASU is No. 6 in the U.S. for research expenditures among institutions without a medical school, says the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey. The university reports $639.6 million in research expenditures in 2019, up from $617.7 million a year before. Read more.

ASU is recognized worldwide by the ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in six subject areas that rank in the top 25. The rankings include management, public administration, environmental science and engineering, business administration, economics and geography. In addition, 15 subject areas rank in the top 25 nationally. 

ASU's Thunderbird School of Global Management offers the world's No. 1 specialized Master of Global Management degree program. The 2019 Times Higher Education/Wall Street Journal report surveyed 114 ranked business schools from 24 countries; Thunderbird was the only U.S.-based school to rank in the top 5 Master in Management specialty. Read more.

Recognizing ASU for “improving teaching and learning, producing research that makes a difference in communities and revitalizing its civic and academic mission," the Carnegie Foundation bestows its "Community Engagement" classification on the university through 2025. Read more.

Offering more than 250 program options in 65 countries, ASU ranks No. 9 in the U.S., No. 1 in the Pac-12, for students studying overseas. More than 2,560 ASU students traveled abroad in 2017–18 for credit-bearing coursework. Read more.

ASU's local government management graduate program ranks No. 3 in the country and No. 1 in the Pac-12, by U.S. News & World Report, ahead of Syracuse University and the University of Southern California. It is one of eight graduate offerings in ASU's Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions ranked in the top 10. Read more.

W. P. Carey School of Business ranks among the top in the nation with 6 of its online graduate programs in the top 10 — including online MBA (top 10 for nine consecutive years), general management MBA, MBA marketing, MBA business analytics, finance MBA and master's in business programs (excluding MBA). Read more.

ASU is among the five top producers of Teach For America educators, along with UCLA and UC Berkeley. Across the country, TFA corps members will impact 51 regions shaping the political, economic and social future of the nation. Read more.

ASU is No. 8 on the Peace Corps' 2020 list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities, ahead of UC-Berkeley and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently, 59 Sun Devils serve in the Peace Corps. Read more.

ASU is recognized with Active Minds’ Healthy Campus Award for the promotion and protection of the mental and physical health and overall well-being of its students. The prestigious award reflects ASU’s commitment to campus health, leading to greater student engagement, retention and success. Read more.

Recognized as one of North America's greenest colleges and universities, ASU ranks No. 1 out of 328 by Sierra magazine's "coolest schools" sustainability ranking, ahead of UC Berkeley, Penn State, UCLA and Yale. Read more.

ASU's School of Public Affairs secures 6 top 10 spots in U.S. News & World Report graduate programs rankings, including emergency management and homeland security, local government management, urban policy, public management and leadership, environmental policy, and information and technology. Read more.

TIME Magazine has named ASU President Michael M. Crow one of the 10 best college presidents in the U.S. Crow has focused the vision and goals of ASU — as a New American University — on academic excellence, broad access to all qualified students and meaningful community impact. Read more.

Slate.com has named ASU President Michael M. Crow one of the 25 “Most Innovative and Practical Thinkers of our Time” for his efforts to reshape the American public university, combining inventiveness with practicality. The article explores Crow’s ideas about how universities can better connect with the real world. Read more.

ASU is one of fastest-growing universities in the U.S. for technology transfer, climbing 22 spots since the last Milken Institute Report. In "startups launched" scores, ASU ranks ahead of Stanford, MIT, Cornell and UCLA. Read more.

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is No. 11 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s best graduate education programs. Among public universities, the college was ranked No. 4, ahead of the University of California-Berkeley, the university of Texas-Austin and the University of Virginia, solidifying ASU as a top-tier college for a master's degree in education since 2012. Read more.

U.S. News & World Report ranks two graduate fine arts programs in ASU's Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts in the country's top 10: ceramics (No. 4, No. 1 Pac-12) and photography (No. 6, No. 2 Pac-12). Read more.

ASU Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication students won 26 awards in the national 2021 Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts contest, including seven first place prizes. This year is the 11th time in 12 years that the Cronkite School has finished ahead of other colleges around the country, winning with the most news division awards. Read more.

ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law is in the top 10 among the nation's public university graduate schools, says U.S. News & World Report. Ranked the top law school in Arizona, the college tops University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California-Irvine, and William & Mary Law School among others, according to the annual survey. Read more.

ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business has 29 degree programs, including online for both undergraduate and graduate, that rank among the country's top 25. Top programs include supply chain management, project management, information systems and business analytics. Read more.

ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business's full-time MBA program climbed from the top 50 MBA programs globally to the top 25, ranking No. 23 worldwide by The Economist. The W. P. Carey MBA program is recognized for its small, personalized classes and a high return on investment for tuition. Read more.

ASU President Michael M. Crow is a recipient of the Carnegie Corporation’s 2013 Academic Leadership Award, which honors university presidents who are committed to excellence and access, curricular innovation, and the promotion of strong links between their institutions and their local communities. Read more.

Washington Monthly has recognized ASU President Michael M. Crow as one of the most innovative college presidents for his tangible impact on thousands of students’ lives. The publication praises President Crow for raising graduation rates and enrolling a significant number of students from below the poverty line. Read more.

Students in ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication intercollegiate group placed second in broadcast and third for writing in the nation — and fifth overall — in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards. Cronkite students have placed in the top five nationally overall in nine of the past 15 years, competing with more than 100 journalism schools. Read more.

ASU places No. 6 among U.S. universities for tech company hires at some of the largest tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google, according to a survey by the recruitment firm SHL. ASU outranked Georgia Tech and UCLA. The survey also ranked ASU No. 2 for graduates who go on to work for top banks. Read more.

A leading service ranking the excellence and innovation of the nation’s top universities, U.S. News & World Report rates 87 undergraduate and graduate programs, including online, at ASU among the top 25 in the country, including 39 programs ranked in the nation's top 10. See the list.

President Crow is selected as one of the Top 50 World's Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine. The list recognizes global leaders in business, government, philanthropy and the arts who are "transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same." Read more.

ASU is selected as the No. 10 best performing university in the world in the subject of education by ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. More than 4,000 universities were ranked across 54 different subjects. Read more.

ASU makes the Forbes "America's Best Value Colleges." The ranking highlights schools with the highest quality and best financial outcomes. Schools were ranked based on educational quality, cost, net debt, alumni wages, timely graduation and access for students who need financial assistance. Read more.

A first-ever ranking issued by U.S. News & World Report recognizes ASU as No. 2 for best online bachelor's in psychology programs. ASU offers online Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science options for both psychology and forensic psychology through the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Read more.

President Michael M. Crow was selected for the 2020 Eisenhower Award for his service as chairman of In-Q-Tel, a firm that invests in new technologies supporting the defense and intelligence communities, and for his leadership as president of ASU preparing future leaders in technology, commerce and public service. Read more.

A brand-new ranking issued by U.S. News & World Report recognizes ASU as No. 1 for best online bachelor's in business programs, encompassing more than 25 undergraduate business degree programs offered online. Read more.

ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business has been named one of the nation's most outstanding business schools, according to the Princeton Review. The W. P. Carey School earned the No. 1 spot in the country for Best MBA for operations, the No. 6 spot in resources for minority students, and No. 8 for online MBA programs. Read more.

W. P. Carey School of Business ranks No. 22 in Inc. magazine's rankings of MBA entrepreneurship programs worldwide. The ranking measures each MBA program on 10 categories, including elective entrepreneurship courses, the number of alumni who launch businesses and the number of students in entrepreneurship clubs. Read more.

For the second year in a row, more than 60,000 employers and partners from Lockin and the Global University Central Career Union selected ASU for the Exclusive Global Employer's Choice Award in recognition of world-class professionalism and recruitment in China. In addition, ASU has received the 2020 Best China Career Services Award from the American Universities' China Association.

ASU ranks No. 62 for best university in the U.S., according to the QS World University Rankings: USA 2021. Moving up nearly 30 spots from last year's position, ASU also ranks No. 1 in the state, ahead of both Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona. Ranking more than 350 universities, QS looked at four key indicators: research, learning experience, employability, and diversity and internationalization. Read more.

The Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at ASU ranks No. 2 for best graduate criminology and criminal justice programs by U.S. News & World Report, ahead of Penn State and Florida State. One of 14 graduate degree programs ranked in the top 10 nationwide, the program is designed and taught by nationally ranked faculty. Learn more.

ASU earned a bronze award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science's SEA (STEM Equity Achievement) Change initiative. One of only five universities given this distinction, ASU leads the way in advancing STEM equity and inclusion for underrepresented students, faculty and staff. Learn more.

Arizona State University, a leader in educating the next generation in engineering and science, ranks fourth in the U.S. for undergraduate degrees in STEM-related fields. With 4,427 STEM-related undergraduate degrees awarded in 2019–20, ASU is among the national leaders along with University of Michigan, University of Texas and UCLA. Read more.