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Arizona State University Campus Immersion

AZLarge public institution · Overall rank #21 nationally

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Azimuth ranks Arizona State University Campus Immersion #21 nationally.

Who it’s a good fit for

Arizona State University Campus Immersion is a public university in Tempe, Arizona, where the degree mix is led by Business, Engineering, and Biological Sciences. Mobility is among the highest we track, and most graduates are estimated to go into jobs rather than on to further study.

Graduates out-earn what predicts for students like them. The part the model attributes to the factors it measures adds to expected earnings, while the remainder it cannot explain subtracts from them.

The typical graduate earns above the median at comparable schools, so the raw and adjusted pictures point the same way. Students who arrive with Pell Grants finish below the rate for the entering cohort as a whole.

The lowest income band pays well under half the published cost, while the highest band pays closer to it. The admission rate is above the median for comparable schools, and the largest programs are not the best-paid ones.

A student drawn to Business or Biological Sciences should go in knowing that the highest earnings are in much smaller programs like Construction Engineering and Computer Science.

ASU at a glance

Admissions and outcomes

Admission rate[1]
89.9%
Six-year completion[2]
68.0%
Four-year earnings[3]
$66,968

Cost and family borrowing

Average annual net price · $48–75K family income[6]
$16,801
Median student debt[4]
$19,500
Median Parent PLUS debt[7]
$23,519

ASU rankings: how Azimuth assesses value[5]

Arizona State University Campus Immersion is a public university in Tempe, Arizona, enrolling 64,674 undergraduates. Its composite standing sits near the very top of the Azimuth ranking among nonprofit four-year institutions (99th percentile).

The university admits 89.9% of applicants, a rate above the 78.1% median for comparable institutions (same type and size). Among full-time first-year students, 86.6% return for a second year, against a median of 83.1% for similar schools.

The six-year graduation rate for that cohort is 68.0%, compared with a median of 65.0% for similar schools. An estimated 22.5% of undergraduates arrive as transfers or part-time students, so the graduation rate describes a majority of the student body but not all of it.

The four that make up the composite sit far apart. Mobility is the strongest, and access is also strong, while return and affordability sit lower.

Azimuth ranks Arizona State University Campus Immersion #21 among 1,467 nonprofit four-year institutions. The strongest pillar is mobility, where ASU sits in the 99th percentile, reflecting the scale at which graduates reach earnings that outpace their pre-college economic circumstances.

The access pillar sits in the 84th percentile, the return pillar in the 78th percentile, and affordability in the 77th percentile. Affordability is the weakest pillar, though all four land above the median for nonprofit four-year institutions.

Pell Grants reach 29.0% of undergraduates at Arizona State University Campus Immersion, a measure of financial access. Azimuth places ASU at #234 for access among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The Pell population completes at 58.8%. That result is 9.2 percentage points below the rate for the entering cohort as a whole (68.0%).

Azimuth ranks ASU #8 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. Graduates at ASU earn about $11,110 more than the model expects for similar students.

How value-added outcomes are assessed · How to interpret program rankings

ASU rankings in context
GeographyRank
National#21
West#11

Azimuth overall value rankings within each geographic comparison group.

National pillar percentiles

Economic mobility
National percentile: 99
Access & reach
National percentile: 84
Affordability
National percentile: 77
Return on investment
National percentile: 78

Top-ranked majors

  1. Construction Engineering Technology/Technician#2
  2. Science Technologies/Technicians, Other#2
  3. Graphic Communications#3

This school’s three highest-ranked programs nationally. Each rank compares bachelor’s programs in the same field; field sizes differ.

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01 / ASU briefing

ASU cost & financial aid[6][7]

The published cost of attendance at Arizona State University Campus Immersion is $30,111. In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported in-state tuition of $12,172 and required fees of $803 for the 2025-26 academic year, with on-campus food and housing at $17,754.

Out-of-state students face a published tuition of $34,364. After grants and scholarships, the average net price for aid recipients is $14,967, which is $667 below the $15,634 median for comparable institutions (same type and size).

Aid covers about 50% of the published cost for the average aid recipient. Azimuth ranks the university #323 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions.

The published cost of attendance at Arizona State University Campus Immersion is $30,111. For families earning under $30,000, the average net price is $9,070.

For families in the $48,001–$75,000 band, it is $16,801, and for families earning over $110,000, it is $24,296. The spread between the lowest and highest bands is $15,226.

Azimuth ranks Arizona State University Campus Immersion #323 for affordability among nonprofit four-year institutions. Aid covers about 50% of the published cost for the average aid recipient, an offset of $15,144.

The across all aid recipients is $14,967, which is below the median of $15,634 for comparable institutions (same type and size) by $667. As a public university, ASU's tuition and fees are part of that published cost.

The median federal student debt at completion is $19,500, with about 79.4% of federal aid recipients taking federal loans. That median is below the peer median of $20,076 for comparable institutions by $576.

Median Parent PLUS borrowing stands at $23,519. The median federal student debt corresponds to an estimated payment of $222 a month if repaid over ten years.

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Reported average annual net price · $48–75K$16,801

After grants and scholarships. Your aid offer may differ.

Averages within each income band; individual aid packages vary.

Borrowing and repayment at ASU

At Arizona State University Campus Immersion, 79.4% of federal aid recipients take federal loans. Among those who complete a degree, the median federal student debt is $19,500.

That median is below the $20,076 median at comparable institutions (same type and size) by $576. For a separate population of parent borrowers, the median Parent PLUS loan is $23,519.

In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported that 36% of graduates borrowed from any source, with an average cumulative amount of $25,659 per borrower. That figure includes 34% who held federal loans averaging $17,868 and 6% who carried private loans averaging $47,945.

Earnings scenarios at Arizona State University Campus Immersion stretch from $52,272 in a downside case to $96,480 in an upside case, while $66,968 represents the typical outcome for the mix of programs offered. Graduates earn a median of $66,968 four years after completion, a figure in the 70th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

They earn about $11,110 more than the model expects for similar students, an outcome that falls in the 86th percentile nationally. For borrowers, the median federal student debt at completion is $19,500, a level that is below the $20,076 median for comparable institutions (same type and size). The estimated monthly payment if repaid over ten years is $222.

Median Parent PLUS borrowing, a separate parent-borrower population, is $23,519. The estimated monthly student payment if repaid over ten years is $222.

How Financial GPS measures payment burden · The four risk-and-reward zones

Financial GPS

What does repayment look like?

Institution median student debt
$19,500
Institution Parent PLUS debt
$23,519

Federal loans only; private or institutional loans aren’t included.

Estimated student payment · monthly
$222/mo
Estimated Parent PLUS payment · monthly
$299/mo

Payments use school-wide median balances, not a specific major’s.

Payment assumptions

Payments are 10-year standard payments on the median balance, before loan fees, used as a yardstick. Rates for newly issued loans may differ, and loans made after July 1, 2026 can repay over a longer term; existing loans keep their original fixed rates.

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Read the full cost & aid brief

02 / ASU briefing

ASU career outcomes & earnings[3][8][9]

Arizona State University Campus Immersion reports median earnings of $66,968 four years after completion. That institution-wide figure is a starting point; results for particular fields can differ.

Read earnings alongside retention and completion. Earnings among completers do not include every student who entered the institution, while the lower and higher planning estimates describe modeled mixes of program outcomes rather than observed salary percentiles.

What explains value-added earnings?
Program & institutional factors The part attributed to observed institutional characteristics.
+$11,839
Unexplained remainder What remains after the model’s observed factors.
-$729
Total modeled value added The modeled difference from expected earnings.
+$11,110

These are statistical model components, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

Read the full outcomes brief

03 / ASU briefing

ASU acceptance rate & admissions[1][10][11]

Arizona State University Campus Immersion admitted 89.9% of applicants, a figure that sits above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size). In its 2025-26 Common Data Set, the university reported 69,617 applicants, 61,533 admitted students, and 13,665 enrolled first-year students.

Admissions
Admission rate
89.9%
Read the full admissions brief

04 / ASU briefing

What are the largest majors at ASU?[12]

The largest program records at Arizona State University Campus Immersion, by reported degrees awarded, are: Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other (1,206 awards); Biology, General (957 awards); Psychology, General (856 awards); Business Administration, Management and Operations (713 awards); Computer Science (582 awards). These counts describe degree output in the source reporting period, not current enrollment or unique people.

Among those larger programs, reported median earnings four years after completion include Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other at $72,002; Biology, General at $56,037; Psychology, General at $53,586. Program size and earnings answer different questions; the largest program need not have the highest earnings.

Keep individual program records separate from broader degree categories and from records for other reporting periods. Those views can describe different parts of the university’s academic mix.

Four-year earnings · six largest reported fields
Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other 1,206 degrees awarded
$72,002
Biology, General 957 degrees awarded
$56,037
Psychology, General 856 degrees awarded
$53,586
Business Administration, Management and Operations 713 degrees awarded
$82,535
Computer Science 582 degrees awarded
$114,868
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Levels and Methods 491 degrees awarded
$53,195

Fields selected by reported completions. Counts describe credentials awarded, not unique students or the earnings sample. Bars show median four-year earnings.

Read the full majors brief

05 / ASU briefing

How does ASU serve students from different backgrounds?

Azimuth ranks Arizona State University Campus Immersion #8 for mobility among nonprofit four-year institutions. That places the mobility pillar in the 99th percentile.

The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 68.0%, while Pell recipients complete at a rate of 58.8%, a figure that sits below the overall rate by 9.2 percentage points. Graduates earn about $11,110 more than the model expects for similar students, placing the earnings beyond expectations measure in the 86th percentile.

64,674 undergraduates enroll at Arizona State University Campus Immersion, a public university that admits 89.9% of applicants, compared with a peer median of 78.1%. Pell Grant recipients account for 29.0% of the undergraduate body; an estimated 22.5% arrive as transfers or part-time students.

The access pillar at ASU sits in the 84th percentile among nonprofit four-year institutions.

06 / ASU briefing

What colleges are similar to ASU?[15]

The comparisons for Arizona State University Campus Immersion cover higher reported admission rates, similar admissions profiles, higher reported earnings at similar cost, lower reported cost with similar earnings and options in the same state or region. The similar-schools brief keeps these questions in separate groups, with related institutional profiles shown as another comparison.

Each group has its own candidate list and ordering. A high position within one group is not a rank against all the schools in the other groups, and a school can appear more than once for different reasons. Check the source definition and earnings period for the comparison you choose.

A shortlist for different decisions

Choose a row to compare the figures with ASU.

Admissions peerNorthern Arizona University89.6% admitted
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUNorthern Arizona University
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$60,629-$6,339 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$14,158-$809 vs ASU · lower cost
Admission rate89.9%89.6%
Explore Northern Arizona University →
Higher-admission alternativeUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee100.0% admitted
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$62,480-$4,488 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$15,014+$47 vs ASU · higher cost
Admission rate89.9%100.0%
Explore University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee →
Nearby alternativeUniversity of ArizonaNearby option · AZ
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUUniversity of Arizona
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$67,420+$452 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$16,674+$1,707 vs ASU · higher cost
Admission rate89.9%86.1%
Explore University of Arizona →
Higher-earnings alternativeSan Jose State University$89,614 earnings
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUSan Jose State University
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$89,614+$22,646 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$13,760-$1,207 vs ASU · lower cost
Admission rate89.9%84.6%
Explore San Jose State University →
Lower-cost alternativeCUNY Brooklyn College$3,103 average net price
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUCUNY Brooklyn College
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$62,833-$4,135 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$3,103-$11,864 vs ASU · lower cost
Admission rate89.9%58.4%
Explore CUNY Brooklyn College →
Similar profileTexas A&M University-College StationMatched across several measures
Comparison with ASU
MeasureASUTexas A&M University-College Station
Peer earnings · 4 years$66,968$76,234+$9,266 vs ASU
Average annual net price$14,967$21,315+$6,348 vs ASU · higher cost
Admission rate89.9%57.4%
Explore Texas A&M University-College Station →

Each school is the first-ranked match in its category, not a recommendation across every measure. The same college may lead more than one category. Figures use the matching snapshot; earnings reflect the matched four-year cohort. — means unavailable.

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Data scope & methodology

Structured payloads generated Governed hub narrative Governed spoke corpus

Four-year earnings describe cohorts of completers. Figures for other horizons describe different cohorts and are not joined into a career-growth projection.

Azimuth's overall rank and pillar percentiles come from the school profile. Absolute pillar ranks, city, enrollment and official-site links are shown only when structured data supplies them.

Detailed earnings, cost, admissions and program values come from the endpoint responsible for each measure. Missing values are not replaced with zero. Value-added estimates are model associations, not causal effects.

Figures are refreshed with each data release, at most a quarter apart. The underlying source dates can be earlier than the release.

Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.

Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.

Read the ranking methodology, data definitions and limitations · About College Azimuth

Read the analysis behind value-added earnings and the change to four-year graduate earnings. These articles are published on collegeazimuth.com.

Data notes & source fields

Scorecard field codes identify the underlying measure; Azimuth-derived values are labeled separately. Snapshot dates are not measurement years. Source populations and reporting periods differ across measures. Field definitions are in the U.S. Department of Education · College Scorecard documentation; notes with a different source link it below.

  1. Admission rate. Reported applicants admitted; not a transfer-specific or individual admission probability.

    Source fields: ADM_RATE

  2. Six-year completion. First-time, full-time students completing at the institution within 150% of normal time, typically six years for a bachelor’s degree.

    Source fields: C150_4

  3. Four-year institutional earnings. Median earnings of graduates in the reported cohort who are working and not enrolled, four years after completion.

    Source fields: MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

  4. Median federal student debt. Federal student-loan debt among completers in the reported borrowing cohort. Excludes Parent PLUS and is not total debt across all students.

    Source fields: GRAD_DEBT_MDN

  5. National, regional and state ranks; pillar percentiles; major ranks. Derived scores within the stated eligible comparison set, not raw Scorecard fields. Major ranks compare institutions within a field; their denominators differ.

    Source fields: Azimuth rankings

    College Azimuth · Ranking methodology

  6. Annual net price by family income. Average annual cost after grants and scholarships for the eligible first-time, full-time aid-recipient cohort. Public-school figures reflect in-state tuition. Includes living costs; these are averages, not medians or individual offers.

    Source fields: NPT4_PUB/PRIV; NPT41_PUB/PRIV through NPT45_PUB/PRIV

  7. Parent PLUS debt, payments and GPS illustration. Stored payments use Financial GPS loan and repayment assumptions. The adjustable spectrum applies the published framework to annual student payments divided by earnings minus an expense allowance; its initial allowance uses the frozen 2024 framework baseline. It is an illustration rather than a school rating. Parent PLUS uses the completer median where available, otherwise the all-borrower median; these describe different borrowing populations.

    Source fields: PLUS_DEBT_ALL_COMP_MD; fallback PLUS_DEBT_ALL_MD; Azimuth Financial GPS calculations

    College Azimuth · Financial GPS methodology

  8. Downside and upside earnings; yellow band. The band spans the modeled lower and higher scenarios. It is not the P25–P75 interval for individual graduates. The median marker is the separately reported institutional median.

    Source fields: Azimuth modeled program-mix scenarios

    College Azimuth · Earnings scenario methodology

  9. Value added and its components. Observed-factor attribution plus the unexplained remainder equals total modeled value added. These are associations, not proven causal effects; the remainder is not a direct measure of teaching quality.

    Source fields: Azimuth statistical model

    College Azimuth · Value-added methodology

  10. SAT score range and reported midpoint. Reported scores of enrolled score-submitters, not admission cutoffs. The midpoint field is not necessarily the middle of the displayed range.

    Source fields: SATVR25 + SATMT25; SATVR75 + SATMT75; SAT_AVG

  11. First-year retention. Retention of the reported full-time cohort at four-year institutions.

    Source fields: RET_FT4

  12. Program earnings, completion counts and major-mix dots. Included bachelor’s programs have at least five reported completions. Counts are aggregated credentials, not unique people or an earnings sample. Major-mix dots group those counts by field of study; excluded programs are not zero activity.

    Source fields: EARN_MDN_4YR; IPEDSCOUNT1; CIPCODE

    College Scorecard · Field-of-study technical documentation

  13. Pell recipients. Share of undergraduates receiving a Pell Grant in the reported academic year.

    Source fields: PCTPELL

  14. Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group. This is not an observed transfer-in rate. It includes part-time entrants and other entering-student attendance patterns.

    Source fields: 1 − PFTFTUG1_EF

  15. Peer earnings and signed differences. Differences are peer minus this school, from the same matching snapshot. A positive earnings difference does not mean the peer is better on every measure.

    Source fields: Azimuth peer model using MD_EARN_WNE_4YR

    College Azimuth · Comparison methodology

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