Something that bothers me about attending ASU, or rather something that bothers me from other people is this:
“You go to ASU? Oh isn’t that a party school?”
“Oh I know ASU! I saw them on the top party schools list!”
Well look at this list! We are a Top producers of Fulbright Student. Please note the company we are keeping as well.
Arizona State University may be known as a “party school.” That is part of being part of a NCAA Rank 1 school in the PAC 12 Conference. Our Greek life is thriving.
You want a true description of my university?:
Arizona State University is a Tier 1, Research institution, located in one of the largest metropolitan, Phoenix. ASU has over 50, 000 students all from different walks of life from all 50 US State and over 30 countries.
I manage the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI). Today we have our annual Research Symposium that highlighted 120 students research projects. It is amazing the research our students are doing. ASU encourages undergraduate research and not many institutions do that. I wish I could go more in detail about the students’ projects, but there are so many of them that I can never keep track and certainly do it justice. When the story on the Symposium comes out on the website, I will be sure to post it.
What I am trying to say here is that ASU isn’t a party school. If you receive a degree is worth the same as every other institution (ok I can understand IVY leagues being “valued” more). Don’t be ashamed to be Sun Devil! Embrace it!
Sun Devil Pride! I know I have it! 
Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2012-13
| Research institutions | Number of applications | Number of awards |
| U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | 141 | 40 |
| Harvard U. | 132 | 31 |
| Brown U. | 85 | 29 |
| U. of Chicago | 102 | 24 |
| U. of California at Berkeley | 97 | 23 |
| Yale U. | 98 | 23 |
| Arizona State U. | 58 | 23 |
| Columbia U. | 79 | 22 |
| Northwestern U. | 101 | 22 |
| U. of Texas at Austin | 77 | 22 |
| Rutgers U. | 111 | 21 |
| U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 68 | 19 |
| Boston College | 64 | 18 |
| Michigan State U. | 63 | 17 |
| Stanford U. | 74 | 15 |
| U. of Pittsburgh | 54 | 15 |
| U. of California at Los Angeles | 53 | 15 |
| American U. | 48 | 14 |
| Duke U. | 36 | 14 |
| Georgetown U. | 61 | 14 |
| U. of Maryland at College Park | 48 | 14 |
| U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 61 | 14 |
| U. of Wisconsin at Madison | 53 | 14 |
| Washington U. in St. Louis | 62 | 14 |
| U. of Georgia | 68 | 13 |
| Florida State U. | 51 | 12 |
| George Washington U. | 54 | 12 |
| U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 55 | 12 |
| Cornell U. | 54 | 11 |
| Emory U. | 52 | 11 |
| Princeton U. | 67 | 11 |
| U. of Florida | 61 | 11 |
| U. of South Carolina at Columbia | 28 | 11 |
| College of William and Mary | 47 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins U. | 79 | 10 |
| Ohio State U. | 44 | 10 |
| Pennsylvania State U. at University Park | 56 | 10 |
| Syracuse U. | 38 | 10 |
| U. of Southern California | 68 | 10 |
| U. of Nebraska at Lincoln | 27 | 9 |
| Master’s institutions | Number of applications | Number of awards |
| Nazareth College of Rochester | 17 | 6 |
| Saint Edward’s U. | 21 | 6 |
| U. of Portland | 28 | 6 |
| Hunter College, City U. of New York | 13 | 5 |
| Monterey Institute of International Studies | 20 | 5 |
| Rollins College | 14 | 5 |
| Saint Joseph’s U. | 13 | 5 |
| Villanova U. | 28 | 5 |
| Pacific Lutheran U. | 21 | 4 |
| Seattle U. | 19 | 4 |
| U. of Scranton | 10 | 4 |
| Drake U. | 10 | 3 |
| Elon U. | 15 | 3 |
| Fairfield U. | 6 | 3 |
| Gonzaga U. | 4 | 3 |
| Middle Tennessee State U. | 13 | 3 |
| U. of Redlands | 15 | 3 |
| Bachelor’s institutions | Number of applications | Number of awards |
| Pitzer College | 68 | 19 |
| Scripps College | 41 | 14 |
| Pomona College | 59 | 14 |
| Smith College | 42 | 14 |
| Grinnell College | 55 | 13 |
| College of the Holy Cross | 55 | 11 |
| Oberlin College | 48 | 11 |
| Williams College | 54 | 10 |
| Swarthmore College | 41 | 10 |
| Claremont McKenna College | 34 | 9 |
| Connecticut College | 19 | 9 |
| Hamilton College | 16 | 9 |
| Kenyon College | 30 | 9 |
| Saint Olaf College | 36 | 9 |
| Vassar College | 41 | 9 |
| Wheaton College (Mass.) | 23 | 9 |
| Amherst College | 37 | 8 |
| Lewis and Clark College | 20 | 8 |
| Middlebury College | 24 | 8 |
| Occidental College | 36 | 7 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 20 | 6 |
| Carleton College | 44 | 6 |
| Wellesley College | 31 | 6 |
| Bates College | 29 | 6 |
| Whitman College | 19 | 6 |
| Barnard College | 18 | 5 |
| Colby College | 17 | 5 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 25 | 5 |
| Spelman College | 25 | 5 |
| Agnes Scott College | 13 | 4 |
| Coe College | 11 | 4 |
| Colgate U. | 27 | 4 |
| DePauw U. | 21 | 4 |
| Earlham College | 13 | 4 |
| Knox College | 17 | 4 |
| Macalester College | 17 | 4 |
| Trinity College | 31 | 4 |
| Wesleyan U. | 25 | 4 |
| Specialized institutions | Number of applications | Number of awards |
| Maryland Institute College of Art | 16 | 2 |
| Princeton Theological Seminary | 2 | 2 |
| Colburn School | 2 | 2 |
| Cranbrook Academy of Art | 9 | 2 |
| California College of the Arts | 3 | 1 |
| Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 3 | 1 |
| Juilliard School | 3 | 1 |
| Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 5 | 1 |
| New England Conservatory of Music | 4 | 1 |
| Rhode Island School of Design | 11 | 1 |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 16 | 1 |
| U. of California at San Francisco | 1 | 1 |
| William Mitchell College of Law | 1 | 1 |
