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 is ranked top in the nation for three consecutive years and second in the world in 2022 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. Among the 17 goals, ASU ranked No. 1 in the world in three SDG categories: sustainable cities and communities; life below water; and life on land. 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.

For three consecutive years, 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. ASU is tied with the University of Florida and ahead of Penn State University-World Campus and The University of Arizona. Read more.

Scoring a perfect 100/100, the Thunderbird School of Global Management is ranked No. 1 in the world for international trade by the QS International Trade Rankings, ahead of Cambridge, Stanford and Harvard. QS selected Thunderbird’s Master of Global Management degree program as the world’s best international trade program. Read more.

The Broadcast Education Association ranked the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication top overall for the creative achievement of its students, ahead of Syracuse, University of Florida and USC. The Cronkite School also ranked first in Sports and News programs, second in Documentary Programs, and fifth in Audio Programs and Interactive Multimedia and Emerging Technology. Read more.

Students in ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication placed third overall in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards along with UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Florida, and scored in the top five in writing, photojournalism and television categories. Cronkite students have finished in the top five nationally in the past four consecutive years.  Read more.

ASU has been named a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Read more about ASU's commitment to the Hispanic community, accessibility and inclusivity, including its participation in the newly formed Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Research Universities. 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. 5 spot in resources for minority students, and No. 11 for online MBA programs. Read more.

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.

ASU is ranked the top public university in the U.S. chosen by international students, according to the 2022 Institute of International Education Open Doors Report. Placing ahead of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, UCLA and UC Berkeley, ASU also ranked in the top five among all universities. During the 2021–22 academic year, ASU was home to 15,293 international students, a 17.5% increase from 2020–21. 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 is ranked No. 1 for visual and performing arts by the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates, ahead of UCLA, Harvard and Yale.The SED is based on the number and characteristics of individuals receiving research doctoral degrees in the academic year 2020–21 from U.S. academic institutions. 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.

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 ahead of UCLA, University of Michigan and UC San Diego. Read more.

U.S. News & World Report recognizes ASU as No. 4 for best online bachelor's in psychology programs, tied with CUNY, Loyola University Chicago and University of Florida. 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.

A leading service ranking the excellence and innovation of the nation’s top universities, U.S. News & World Report rates 86 undergraduate and graduate programs, including online, at ASU among the top 25 in the country, including 36 programs ranked in the nation's top 10. See the list.

For the past 10 years, ASU has been a top-producing university for elite scholars. This impressive list includes 312 Gilman Scholars, 180 Fulbright Scholars, 40 Boren Scholars, 35 Killam Fellows, 21 Goldwater Scholars, 13 Udall Scholars, 8 Gates Cambridge Scholars, 4 Marshall Scholars, 4 Truman Scholars and 2 Rhodes Scholars. Learn more.

ASU graduate programs place among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2023 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings. Thirteen graduate programs rank among the top 10 in the country, including programs in homeland security, project management, supply chain management, legal writing, environmental sciences and others, with a total of 39 programs placing in the top 20. Read more.

ASU is ranked top 20 among U.S. universities for undergraduate teaching by U.S. News & World Report, tied with Harvard and ahead of Stanford and Yale. This award recognizes universities demonstrating a strong commitment to high-quality undergraduate teaching. Read more.

ASU is ranked a top 25 university in the U.S. for first-year experiences, ahead of Harvard, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt, 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.

ASU's School of Public Affairs holds eight 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, information and technology, and criminology which was last ranked in 2021. Read more.

ASU's local government management graduate program ranks No. 4 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 seven graduate offerings in ASU's Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions ranked in the top 10. 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.

In 2021, ASU was one of only 10 universities that were 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.

W. P. Carey School of Business ranks among the top in the nation with six of its online graduate programs in the top 10 — including online MBA (top 10 for 11 consecutive years), general management MBA, MBA marketing, MBA business analytics, finance MBA and master's in business programs (excluding MBA). Read more.

ASU's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law is in the top 12 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California-Davis and University of California-Irvine among others, according to the annual survey. Read more.

W. P. Carey School of Business ranks No. 6 in Poets & Quants and Inc. Magazine's 2023 rankings of MBA entrepreneurship programs worldwide. Climbing 11 spots, ASU ranks ahead of University of Chicago, Northwestern and University of Pennsylvania. Measuring 16 categories, the ranking emphasizes the percentage of MBA students launching businesses and MBA courses focused on entrepreneurship and/or innovation. Learn more.

Arizona State University ranks top 10 globally for U.S. utility patents awarded to universities in 2021, along with MIT, Stanford and Harvard. Currently ranked No. 8, ASU places in the top 10 among universities worldwide for the second time. Learn more.

ASU is among the top 10 for online bachelor's programs in the U.S. seven years in a row, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. There are more than 300 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.

ASU once again ranks No. 6 nationally for research expenditures among universities without a medical school, according to the National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development Survey. The university reports $677.3 million in research expenditures in 2021, ahead of University of Chicago, Princeton and Caltech. Read more.

Sun Devil Athletics has matched its all-time high of 92% GSR for its student-athletes, announced by the NCAA. SDA has either maintained or surpassed its all-time best GSR every year since 2008. In addition, eight teams posted GSR scores at 100%: men's basketball, women's basketball, women's golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, women's swimming and diving, and women's tennis and triathlon. Read more.

ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration ranks No. 12 by U.S. News & World Report among graduate schools for earth sciences, ahead of Yale, Cornell, Rice, Virginia Tech and Ohio State, among others. For earth sciences specialities, ASU ranked No. 3 for geochemistry and No. 5 for geology, ahead of UC Berkeley, MIT and Stanford in both categories; No. 5 for environmental sciences; and No. 17 for geophysics. Read more.

ASU's Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, also known as ROTC, is recognized as one of the top eight programs of its kind nationwide with the 2021 General Douglas MacArthur Award. Chosen out of 274, the program known as the Sun Devil Battalion was selected for a combination of achievement in commissioning mission, cadets' performance during Cadet Summer Training and retention rates. Read more.

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

ASU makes Newsweek's list of The Best Maker Schools in Higher Education, among more than 2,000 communal makerspaces around the world. The list was created through a survey tool in collaboration with an international community of educators, administrators, students and maker leaders. The selected schools demonstrate the ingenuity and community engagement that are hallmarks of the maker movement. Read more.

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is No. 12 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of America’s best graduate education programs. Among public universities, the college placed at 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.

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.

ASU is named to the top 100 in the world for academic reputation by Times Higher Education. The ranking is based on the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey, which uses United Nations data as a guide to ensure that the results are representative of world scholarship, and targets only experienced, published scholars. Read more.

For the past seven years, ASU has been a top producer of Teach for America corps members — a trend that continued in 2022 with ASU coming in at No. 2 in the country among large universities, along with UC Berkeley, Michigan and USC. TFA corps members spend two years in classrooms across the U.S. supporting the educational and personal development of underserved students. Read more.

ASU ranks in the top 10 in the U.S. for higher education R&D expenditures financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ASU is ranked ahead of UC Berkeley, UCLA and MIT in NASA-funded expenditures. Read more.

The Princeton Review ranks ASU a top U.S. university for undergraduate education in its "The Best 388 Colleges 2023" based on a survey of more than 160,000 students. Students praised the university for "innovation," the ability to “personalize every student’s experience,” "endless ... opportunities for success" and "diversity" of the student body. Read more.

ASU joins the top 20 overall ranked by the National Science Foundation Survey of Earned Doctorates, ahead of Yale, Johns Hopkins and Duke.The SED is based on the number and characteristics of individuals receiving research doctoral degrees in the academic year 2020–21 from U.S. academic institutions. ASU was also ranked No. 1 for visual and performing arts, ahead of UCLA, Harvard and Yale. Read more.

For the second time, ASU has earned the Seal of Excelencia from the Washington, D.C.-based organization Excelencia in Education for its high level of commitment and effort to serve Latino students. In 2019, ASU was among the inaugural group of nine institutions to earn the prestigious award. 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 ranks in the nation's top 25 public schools by Washington Monthly's 2022 National University Rankings, ahead of Ohio State, Purdue and University of Texas-Austin. The ranking recognizes colleges' contribution to the public good in three categories: social mobility, research and promoting public service. The metrics used by the ranking align with the ASU Charter which promotes "assuming responsibilities for the communities it serves" and design aspirations such as social embeddedness.

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.

W. P. Carey School of Business ranks No. 17 in Poets & Quants and Inc. Magazine's 2022 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.

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 education. In addition, 10 subject areas rank in the top 25 nationally. Read more.

ASU ranks No. 13 in the U.S. and No. 34 worldwide by the GEURS survey of employers, ranking ahead of Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech and UCLA. GEURS rates the employability performance based on the following key employability drivers: graduate skills, specialization, academic excellence, focus on work expertise, digital performance and internationality. ASU climbed 111 spots globally since 2020. 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. 

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.

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.

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 ranks No. 2 on the EPA’s Green Power Partnership Top 30 College & University Partners listing. Seventy-eight percent of ASU’s total electricity use is green power, helping to reduce the effects of air pollution and emissions caused by conventional electricity use while supporting the development of clean energy resources. Read more.

Times Higher Education recognizes ASU as one of only two universities in the U.S. — and one of 43 globally — to achieve net zero emissions. The ranking appears in THE’s new data-led report on higher education’s climate-neutral commitments, The Race to Net Zero, which shows how universities worldwide are lowering their greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net zero. 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.

ASU is ranked in the top 10 in the country by Washington Monthly for its community and national service, ahead of Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins. The service aspect of the ranking supports the ASU Charter which emphasizes "assuming responsibilities for the communities it serves."

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.

For the third year in a row, more than 60,000 employers and partners from the Global University Central Career Union and Lockin selected ASU, along with Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago, as a recipient of its Exclusive Global Employer's Choice Award. The award recognizes outstanding career development support for overseas students.

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.

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.

Newsweek identified ASU as one of America's Greatest Places to Work for Diversity 2023. The ranking is based on a pre-survey of HR professionals followed by an employee survey and an independent study of more than 350,000 company reviews. Survey participants responded to questions about corporate culture, working environment and other topics about their companies and others they were acquainted with.

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.

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.

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.