More than 65K students are on ASU Online, a new university record

By Sky Schaudt
Published: Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 2:42pm

ASU students hold lights
Arizona State University
Thousands of ASU freshmen attended the 2023 Sun Devil Welcome event on Aug. 14, 2023.

Students at one of the largest public universities in the United States are heading back to class this week — both on campus and online.

Arizona State University is expecting more than 144,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled for the fall 2023 semester, the school said in a press release.

That number includes more than 65,000 students taking courses through ASU Online, which is the most in school history.

ASU also said on-campus enrollment is nearly 80,000. ASU has students across four campuses across the Phoenix metro area. There are also ASU locations in Lake Havasu, California and Washington, D.C., among others.

About 60,000 students are from Arizona, including nearly 9,000 first-year students, which is also a record number of first-year students who are Arizona residents, ASU said.

ASU students show the "forks up" sign
Arizona State University
More than 300 first-year students, in the Solera program, sing the ASU Fight Song, Monday, August 14, 2023, on ASU’s West campus in Phoenix.

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