Why work at ASU

Excellent Place To Be

With a choice of four distinct campuses in the metro Phoenix area and our newest location in Lake Havasu City, ASU offers a personalized experience to immerse yourself in your studies and engage with community partners that provide internships, research, and clinical practice. Journalism students learn in the heart of Arizona's media industry: Downtown Phoenix. Aviation management students have their air field at the Polytechnic campus. Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences students get paid to perform significant research alongside their professors at the West campus. And sustainability students get down to work in a living solar laboratory – the Tempe campus. An intimate learning experience meets lower costs at the ASU Colleges at Lake Havasu City. ASU continues to develop living and learning communities where education happens 24/7. See videos and photos from current students about living at ASU or schedule a visit and see for yourself.

Excellent Programs

Academic programs at ASU are ranked among the best in the nation. Annual college rankings by U.S. News and World Report placed ASU's undergraduate engineering programs in the top 10 percent of all undergraduate engineering programs in the nation. Business, education, public affairs, design, and arts programs at ASU were rated in the top 25 percent. Explore ASU's degree programs.

Excellent Faculty

Since 2003, ASU has increased the number of high-level faculty members and experts on campus with the addition of 156 new award recipients, fellows or academy members, which include two Nobel laureates, 11 National Academy of Sciences members, 11 American Academy of Arts and Sciences members, 121 Fulbright American Scholar awards, 27 Guggenheim Fellows and three members of the Royal Society. Get to know some of our faculty members by watching the professor profile videos and find out about the prestigious national and international awards and memberships.

Excellent Students

More than 30 percent of ASU's freshmen graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, and 57 percent in the top 25 percent. ASU ranks among the top in the nation in student entrepreneurs, and one of the top 10 producers of Fulbright Scholars in the U.S. ASU is also home to 612 National Merit Scholars and 324 National Hispanic Scholars. Our students have one thing in common: total immersion in an innovative atmosphere where they can chart their own path to success. Read more about ASU's recent outstanding graduates