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Arizona State University is a public metropolitan research university on four campuses across the Phoenix metropolitan area, and four regional learning centers throughout Arizona. ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the U.S. As of fall 2018, the university had about 80,000 students attending classes across its metro campuses, including 66,000-plus undergraduates and more than 12,000 postgraduates. At the same time, ASU welcomed its largest-ever freshman class; the nearly 13,000 enrollments represented a 12 percent increase from fall 2017. More than 36,000 students are enrolled in ASU Online courses. Total enrollment at Arizona State surpassed 100,000 in 2018, reaching 103,530 for the fall 2018 semester.ASU's charter, approved by the board of regents in 2014, is based on the New American University model created by ASU President Michael M. Crow upon his appointment as the institution's 16th president in 2002. It defines ASU as a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but rather by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.ASU is classified as a research university with R1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity designation by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Since 2005, ASU has been ranked among the top research universities in the U.S., public and private, based on research output, innovation, development, research expenditures, number of awarded patents and awarded research grant proposals. The Center for Measuring University Performance ranked ASU in the top 25 U.S. public research universities in its 2016 report. ASU was classified as a Research I institute in 1994, making it one of the nation's newest major research universities . The 2018 university ratings by U.S. News & World Report rank ASU No. 1 among the Most Innovative Schools in America for the third year in a row. U.S. News & World Report shows 83% of the student applications get accepted.The university is organized into 17 colleges, featuring more than 170 cross-discipline centers and institutes pursuing meaningful cutting-edge research; developing solutions to fight new diseases; studying implications of new discoveries on public policy and democracy; imagining creative placemaking; advancing equity and inclusion; and more. There are 350 degree options for undergraduates students, and more than 400 graduate degree and certificate programs offered at ASU.A diverse faculty of more than 4,400 scholars includes 4 Nobel laureates, 6 Pulitzer Prize winners, 3 MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant members and 19 National Academy of Sciences members. Additionally, among current faculty are 180 Fulbright Program American Scholars, 72 National Endowment for the Humanities fellows, 38 American Council of Learned Societies fellows, 33 members of the Guggenheim Fellowship, 21 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 9 National Academy of Engineering members and 3 National Academy of Medicine members. The National Academies has bestowed “highly prestigious” recognition on 227 ASU faculty members. Nearly 600 ASU scholar-athletes compete across 26 varsity-level sports. The Arizona State Sun Devils compete in the Pac-12 Conference and have won 59 Pac-10/Pac-12 championships dating to 1979, and have captured 24 NCAA championships dating to its first title in 1965. Individually, Arizona State Sun Devils scholar-athletes have won 376 national titles. Internationally, Sun Devils have garnered Olympic Games gold: 179 Sun Devils have represented 42 countries and competed or coached 267 times. Since the 1952 Helsinki Games, Sun Devils have won 25 golds, 12 silvers and 23 bronzes. The medal count ranks ASU in the top 15 among U.S. colleges and universities. Scholasticially, ASU scholar-athletes have been recognized with 121 Academic All-American honors since 1963 and 30 NCAA Post Graduate Award winners since 1964. Complementing ASU's athletics venues, recreational facilities and athletics clubs, the university is home to over 1,100 registered student organizations that reflect the student body's diversity. To accommodate growing enrollment, ASU continuously renovates and expands infrastructure. Among the most recent examples of facilities development are the three-phase reinvention of Sun Devil Stadium and the creation of Greek Leadership Village, a student-run project that provides the 5,500-plus-strong fraternity and sorority community with meeting spaces, council offices, retail space and housing facilities. The Student Pavilion, one of the newest buildings on the Tempe campus and the university's first net zero energy building, houses ASU's Undergraduate Student Government, Council of Coalitions and the Programming and Activities Board.
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