The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences fact sheet represents the college's unparalleled academic choice and versatility at Arizona State University. We're on a journey to generate solutions for the changing world.

1. College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Fact Sheet

2. Quality + Size = Strength
Our numbers fuel meaningful change
Each body represents 200 people
We teach 56,427 students in courses every semester (fall 2016)

3. {College
of Liberal
Arts and
Sciences
3 divisions
23 schools and departments
40 research centers and
institutes
90+ undergraduate majors
130+ graduate programs
1,100+ faculty
22,553 students (fall 2016)

4. Humanities
Department of English
Jewish Studies
School of Historical, Philosophical and
Religious Studies
School of International Letters and Cultures

5. Natural Sciences
Department of Physics
Department of Psychology
School of Earth and Space Exploration
School of Life Sciences
School of Mathematical and Statistical
Sciences
School of Molecular Sciences

6. Social Sciences
American Indian Studies
Department of Aerospace Studies
Department of Military Sciences
Department of Naval Sciences
Economics
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
School of Politics and Global Studies
School of Social Transformation
School of Transborder Studies
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family
Dynamics

7. Access
6,641 incoming students
32% first generation | 37% Pell grant eligible
57% women | 37% racial and ethnic diversity
150
National
Merit Scholars
16
Flinn
Scholars
126
National
Hispanic
Scholars
16
National
Achievement
Scholars
Incoming merit scholars

8. Excellence
Our professors are leading generators of excellence
1 Pulitzer Prize winner, 2 MacArthur Fellow, & 3 Nobel Laureates
Not
just
the
But some of the world’s most
★eminent
scientists
{
3 in the Royal Society
13 in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
14 in the National Academy of Sciences
Our college
is home to 30
PROMINENT
fellows
dedicated to advancing
scholarship
inthe
MacArthur
Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
Joh Simon
Guggenheim
Memorial
Foundation
American Council of
Learned Societies
Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation Research Prizes18
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79Fulbright
American Scholars&
68 Regents’ Professors + 20 Presidents’ Professors

9. Impact
Traced the evolutionary history of cancer genes to create
better treatment options
Helped mothers in medical professions lower stress and beat
burnout
$126.8 million research expenditures
Developed framework to make freight traffic more efficient,
safe and sustainable in Arizona
Created national exhibition to explore the evolution and
impact of the U.S. correctional system
Sent spacecraft to the Moon, Mars and Jupiter
Preserved archaeological sites in Sudan, North America

10. Innovation
Use-inspired research1st facts
Developed the 1st
experimental
treatment of the
Ebola virus in
humans
Arizona’s 1st poet
laureate
Nation’s 1st School of
Transborder Studies
and School of Social
Transformation
Integrated the
humanities and art to
address environmental
issues in North
America
Generated a new tool
to predict the shadiest
route for pedestrians
Examined a critical
protein associated
with symptoms of
Alzheimer’s to help
demystify the disease

11. Together we
inspire innovation.

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