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University of Arizona: Tucson: Public Doctoral University 49,403 1885 Arizona Christian University: Glendale: Private (Not For Profit) Baccalaureate College 1,082 1960 Benedictine University at Mesa: Mesa: Private (Not For Profit) Master's University 1887 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Prescott: Private (Not For Profit) Baccalaureate ...
The honors college was first authorized by the Arizona Board of Regents in 1988 as a four-year, residential program on ASU's Tempe campus. In 2001, the college was re-named in honor of ASU supporters Craig Barrett, former CEO of Intel, and Barbara Barrett, former U.S. Secretary of the Air Force. Since 2008, honors programs and classes have been ...
Between 20 and 25 students will initially be admitted to the program, which has a total four year cost of $32,000, [17] [18] [19] far less than the cost of in-state tuition at a four-year Arizona public college. [20] At the time of launch, it was hoped to grow the program to include 100 students per cohort in three years. [21]
This is a list of colleges and schools of Arizona State University. Most of ASU's academic programs are spread across four campuses in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area , ASU Online , and ASU Local. The table below indicates enrollment by college, with an indication of which metropolitan campuses are represented.
Teacher Training School (now Blome Building), 1922. Initially named the Northern Arizona Normal School, the institution opened on September 11, 1899, with 23 students, two faculty members—one, Almon Nicholas Taylor, who was also the school president—and "two copies of Webster's International Dictionary bound in sheepskin" as teaching resources. [19]
The Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD), also known as Maricopa Community Colleges, is a public community college district in Maricopa County, Arizona. Headquartered in Tempe, MCCCD is among the largest community college districts in the United States, serving more than 100,000 students each year in the Phoenix metropolitan area. [2]
Later in the year, the university paid $154.5 million for 20-year naming rights for advertising purposes of the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The company terminated the naming rights deal on April 11, 2017, [37] and on September 4, 2018, the stadium's naming rights were acquired by State Farm. [38]
The university used to be named the Arizona Territorial Normal School and was initially used to train public school teachers. In 1925 the college was renamed the Tempe State Teachers College and started offering its first four-year bachelor's degree. After gaining accreditation in 1933, the college started offering graduated programs in 1937.