The Arizona State University Online and Extended campus offers graduate degree programs through the Arizona State University system. A degree earned through an online degree program offered by ASU is the exact same as one earned on campus. The degree will not say that it was earned online. In addition, all course content and professors used for your online program are the same as those used for on campus programs.
A Look into ASU…
Arizona
State University is one of the premier metropolitan research
universities in the nation, an institution of international
scope, committed to excellence in teaching, research, and public
service. Established in Tempe in 1885 by an act of the Thirteenth
Territorial Legislature, ASU was
initially formed as a teachers college. The core of the Tempe
campus was a twenty-acre cow pasture donated by leading citizens
who sought an institution to train public school teachers, and
provide instruction to their sons and daughters in agriculture
and the mechanical arts.
The name of the institution changed three times during its first fifteen years, becoming the Normal School of Arizona in 1901. Subsequent changes were associated with expansions of the curriculum and degrees offered. In rapid succession Tempe State Teachers College became Arizona State Teachers College, and, in 1945, Arizona State College. By 1958 the college performed all the functions of a university, and received authorization by an act of the governor to become Arizona State University.
Fast Facts…- Established: 1885
- President: Michael M. Crow, 16th president
- Colors: Maroon and Gold
- Mascot: Sparky
- Nickname: The Sun Devils
- First graduate degree offered: Masters in Education, 1937
Research…
Basic and
applied research preceded attainment of university status in
1958, but the development of new academic programs and library
holdings, and the conferral of doctoral degrees in the 1960s led
the Carnegie Foundation to grant ASU
Research I status in 1994. Today research at ASU spans the spectrum of disciplines in the
humanities, the natural sciences, the social sciences, the visual
and performing arts, and the fields of technology, complemented
by distinguished professional programs in such fields as
architecture and environmental design, business, and law.
ASU today is poised to become a global
center for innovative interdisciplinary research.
On July 1, 2002, Michael M. Crow became the sixteenth president of Arizona State University. In his inaugural address, President Crow outlined his vision for the transformation of Arizona State University into a prototype for a new American university.
General Info…
• U.S. News
and World Report ranked ASU in the top
tier of national universities in the country in 2008 - after
being in the 3rd tier for years. Three ASU colleges have made the elite top 25 U.S.
graduate programs list. ASU is the only
Arizona university with any colleges in the top 25.
• The Barrett Honors College was chosen "Best of America" by the editors of Reader's Digest in 2005 for its strong undergraduate program. The magazine says Barrett offers "an Ivy League-style education minus the sticker shock." Barrett students have an average SAT of 1322.
• Almost 2,500 ASU freshmen are from the top 10 percent of their high school class, more than Harvard, Yale or Princeton.
• ASU is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• Economics professor Ed Prescott is the university's first Nobel laureate, earning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2004.
• Twenty-one ASU faculty members have membership in the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. Since 2002, ASU has increased its number of National Academy members by more than 400 percent. ASU has also increased the number of members of other honorary societies like the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Fellows of the Royal Society of London