Arizona State University

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Establishment 1885
Active 1863
Active 1981
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English

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Arizona State University, public, coeducational institution of higher learning with its main campus in Tempe, Arizona, U.S. The university offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in areas including agriculture, engineering, business, education, and the arts and sciences. It also includes Colleges of Architecture and Environmental Design, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Law. Students can study abroad at locations throughout Europe, and in Mexico, Asia, and the Middle East. Branch campuses are ASU West (1984), located in northwestern Phoenix, and ASU East (1996) in nearby Mesa. The university also has an extended campus in downtown Phoenix designed to accommodate working adults. Total enrollment at the school exceeds 47,000. Arizona State University was created as a normal school by the territorial legislature in 1885. Instruction began in 1886. The university’s Camp Tontozona, located in the Mogollon Rim area, allows for instruction and research in mountain terrain. The university also has a centre for meteorite study and a solar energy research laboratory. An important arts centre for Phoenix and its suburbs, Arizona State is home to the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1964, and the Sundome Center for the Performing Arts, the largest single-level theatre in the United States. Alumni of the university include the researcher and industrial designer Temple Grandin.

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