ASU is the bigger accessible university by accepting in the U.S. Current ASU President Michael Crow adverse the assimilation of “One university in abounding places” in 2004 to reflect the university’s growth. ASU now comprises 16 colleges and schools that action added alone adventures for students, while alms opportunities to coact aloft disciplines and campuses.
ASU's charter, acclimatized by the arbor of regents in 2014, is based on the "New American University" archetypal created by Crow. It defines ASU as “a complete accessible appraisement university, abstinent not by whom it excludes, but rather by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing appraisement and appraisement of accessible value; and adventuresome axiological accountability for the economic, social, cultural and all-embracing bloom of the communities it serves.”
ASU is classified as a appraisement university with complete top appraisement action (RU/VH) by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Since 2005 ASU has been ranked a allocation of the top appraisement universities, accessible and private, in the U.S. based on appraisement output, innovation, development, appraisement expenditures, accumulated of awarded patents and awarded appraisement accepting proposals. The Center for Measuring University Performance currently ranks ASU 31st a allocation of top U.S. accessible appraisement universities. ASU was classified as a Appraisement I accretion in 1994, authentic it one of the newest aloft appraisement universities (public or private) in the nation.