QS ranking profile
Arizona State University
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #173
- Up 27 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #200
- Overall score
- 59.1
Explore opportunities at Arizona State University
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QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Extra large
- More than 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Comprehensive
- Teaches across all main faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Americas
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Arizona State University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Knowledge Enterprise provides a cross-campus research layer
Arizona State University presents Knowledge Enterprise as the part of the university that connects research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic partnerships. This is useful for understanding how a broad public university can bring people together across fields and locations. It does not identify the academic home of a particular question by itself. If your interest is in computing, health, sustainability, engineering, social systems, or another area, begin with the discipline and then see how Knowledge Enterprise may provide a wider connection. The meaningful evidence still comes from a school, laboratory, centre, project, or researcher that describes the work in enough detail to be compared.
ASU's main public material also shows a university with several physical settings, including Tempe, Polytechnic, West Valley, Downtown Phoenix, SkySong, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Multiple locations can matter when research activity is distributed, but a campus name does not say what is being studied there. Avoid treating geography as a research fit signal. Instead, use it to ask a better question: where is the relevant academic unit located, and does its current work show the methods, people, or resources that connect with your research direction? A location becomes useful only when it is tied to visible work.
Public examples point to research questions, not blanket claims
Knowledge Enterprise uses examples that include earlier disease diagnosis, semiconductor work in Arizona, water use in a desert setting, artificial intelligence for health, and the commercialisation of fusion energy. These examples can help a reader see the kinds of practical questions being discussed across ASU. They should not be used as a substitute for a local research search. A single public example may represent one team, initiative, or moment in a larger field. Follow the theme to a unit that explains its current research object, evidence, and approach before deciding whether it relates closely to your own work.
The university also makes research resources, facility access, external partnership information, intellectual property guidance, and research-cycle support visible. This can be helpful for understanding the institutional system around a research project. It cannot show what a particular laboratory does every day or whether a specific project is active. Separate these two levels in your note. One line can describe the surrounding research framework, while another should name the actual group or project that gives your topic a clear academic home. The separation keeps a large institutional ecosystem from becoming an unsupported personal conclusion.
Test an Arizona State University research connection
For Arizona State University, write the research problem before naming the institution. Identify one discipline or local unit where the problem seems to belong. Then find a person, group, centre, laboratory, or initiative whose public work states the question in a more precise way. Explain the overlap through something tangible: a computational approach, a health outcome, a water system, a manufactured material, a social setting, or a research design. Do not rely only on the word interdisciplinary. The comparison becomes useful when it shows what crosses disciplines and where the core expertise remains.
Finish by identifying the evidence that would change your view. A promising initiative may be institution-wide while the nearest research team uses a different method. A campus may host relevant activity without being central to the question. Knowledge Enterprise makes the wider structure visible, and that is valuable. The final assessment should stay close to current material from the academic setting that actually carries the research. This produces a clear, revisable record instead of a broad description that could fit almost any large university.