Arizona State University
#173
QS World University Rankings 2026
59.1
QS 2026 overall score
Ranking data
QS World University Rankings source#173
QS World University Rankings 2026
#200
QS World University Rankings 2025
59.1
QS 2026 overall score
Indicator-level data
Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.
Academic reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 63.9
- QS 2026 rank
- #159
Employer reputation
- QS 2026 score
- 63.3
- QS 2026 rank
- #171
Faculty-student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 9.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #801
Citations per faculty
- QS 2026 score
- 61.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #277
International faculty ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 72.5
- QS 2026 rank
- #326
International student ratio
- QS 2026 score
- 53.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #385
International student diversity
- QS 2026 score
- 57.7
- QS 2026 rank
- #353
International research network
- QS 2026 score
- 95.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #81
Employment outcomes
- QS 2026 score
- 42.2
- QS 2026 rank
- #415
Sustainability
- QS 2026 score
- 85.8
- QS 2026 rank
- #102
About Arizona State University
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.
Institution record
- Country
- United States of America
- Region
- Americas
- Status
- Public
- QS size code
- XL
- Profile record updated
- July 24, 2026
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