Thursday marks the first day of the fall semester at Arizona State University.
Approximately 125,000 students have registered for classes this semester, an increase of 7% compared to last year, ASU said in a Tuesday statement.
This includes:
- 52,000 students based on the Tempe campus.
- More than 11,000 will be studying through the downtown Phoenix campus.
- More than 5,000 students will study at ASU’s west Phoenix campus.
- Another 5,000 students will study at ASU Polytechnic, in Mesa.
This fall, ASU is welcoming its second-largest class ever of first-year students or freshman. First-generation students make up more than 35% of ASU’s undergraduate students.
ASU also saw growth in online-only student enrollment. However international student enrollment declined from more than 9,000 students to approximately 8,000 due to travel restrictions and challenges related to the pandemic.
