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Arizona State University
Arizona State University, founded in 1885, has grown into one of the largest public universities in the country by enrollment, and its designation by US News & World Report as the most innovative school in the country for multiple consecutive years reflects a deliberate institutional strategy built around access and scale rather than traditional selectivity. The university's W. P. Carey School of Business and its journalism school, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, have each built strong national reputations, and ASU's fully online degree programs, offered at scale through partnerships including edX, have made it one of the leading providers of online public university education in the country. ASU's explicit institutional charter, adopted under longtime president Michael Crow, commits the university to being measured by "whom it includes" rather than "whom it excludes," a philosophy that's driven ASU's rapid enrollment growth and its self-positioning as a deliberately less selectivity-focused alternative to more traditionally exclusive research universities. The university's Tempe campus and its continued rapid growth in research funding, despite its size-focused rather than exclusivity-focused institutional philosophy, have made ASU one of the largest and fastest-growing major research universities in the country over the past two decades.
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University of Arizona
The University of Arizona, founded in 1885, is the state's original public research university, and its astronomy and planetary sciences programs are consistently ranked among the very best in the country, benefiting directly from Arizona's clear desert skies and the university's operation of several major research observatories across the state. The university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has played a direct role in numerous NASA missions, including leading the OSIRIS-REx mission that successfully returned a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, giving the University of Arizona a level of direct institutional involvement in deep-space exploration matched by relatively few other universities. UA's optical sciences program is similarly among the best in the world, reflecting the same research strengths in astronomy and optics that have made Tucson, home to the university, one of the most significant centers for observatory and telescope technology development in the country. The university's combination of nationally leading space science research and its desert Tucson campus, offering unusually clear observational conditions for astronomical research, has made the University of Arizona one of the most significant academic centers for space and planetary science in the United States.
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