Highlights
- ASU enrolled more than 200,000 students during the 2025–26 school year, a first in university history.
- Over 119,300 of those students pursued degrees through ASU Online, the largest online student body in university history.
- Fall 2026 enrollment is projected at 158,000, down roughly 1% from fall 2025 due to international student visa delays.
- ASU London launched this fall with 320 students, and the new John Shufeldt School of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class of 36 medical students.
Arizona State University enrolled more than 200,000 students during the 2025–26 school year, surpassing that threshold for the first time in university history, the university announced. The milestone was confirmed by the Phoenix Business Journal and AZ Big Media, among others.
The enrollment figure is anchored by ASU Online, which counted more than 119,300 students, the largest online student body in university history. Online enrollment has grown from 30,000 in 2015–16 to 119,300 in 2025–26. The average ASU Online learner is 30 years old, and most balance full-time employment, family responsibilities or both while pursuing their education.
On the physical campuses, approximately 51,200 students are enrolled at Tempe, 10,800 at Downtown Phoenix, 5,200 at the West Valley campus and more than 5,500 at the Polytechnic campus in Mesa. An additional 600 students are enrolled at ASU locations beyond the metro Phoenix campuses, in degree programs such as fashion and film in Los Angeles.
ASU London, a new U.K.-accredited institution, launched this fall with 320 students. Students there will complete a three-year U.K. bachelor's degree in fields such as engineering and global business, with an option of spending a fourth year in Arizona to earn an ASU master's degree.
Health and engineering programs drove notable enrollment gains. The John Shufeldt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering welcomed its inaugural class of 36 medical students this fall. Enrollment in undergraduate engineering programs on the West Valley campus grew more than 40% in the recently launched School of Integrated Engineering. The W. P. Carey School of Business will see a more than 40% growth in new first-year students enrolling in the undergraduate AI in business degree program.
ASU President Michael Crow attributed the growth to the university's founding mission. "It is clear that the mission that has guided ASU's transformation for more than two decades — measuring our success not by whom we exclude, but by whom we include and how they succeed — is an enduring model for how a top research university can be of greater service now and into the future,
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