Arizona State University (ASU) attracts some 76,000 students from all 50 states and 160 nations.
Since 2003, ASU has made a concerted effort to pursue leading faculty. During this time, it has added 156 award recipients and academy/fellow members. This prestigious group now includes two Nobel Laureates, 11 National Academy of Sciences members, 11 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, 121 Fulbright American Scholars, 27 Guggenheim Fellows, one Rockefeller Fellow, 1 MacArthur Fellow, and three members of the Royal Society.
Students can choose from 250 majors and 100 graduate programs. The school has tripled its research expenses since 2002; they now total $552.8. In 2012 alone, ASU spawned over 55 companies and then produced 47 patents the following year.
ASU is also a national space-grant university: it built a $110 million, 298,000-square-foot Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building for NASA in 2012. In 2004, the Pentagon partnered with the school through a $43.7 million grant. The Army Research Laboratory also gave $50 million for the schools Flexible Display Center in 2009.
ASU is currently the only U.S. university to produced 20 megawatts of electricity via solar arrays. The school also generates power through wind turbines.
