Our University - A Vision for the Future
Our University - A Vision for the Future
• Enrollment: 18,300 

• More than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors offered

• More than 930 full-time faculty

• Extensive study-abroad program

• 71 percent freshman retention rate

• 1,200-acre campus with 30 academic buildings and 210,000-square-foot library
POINTS OF PRIDE ACADEMICALLY SUCCESSFUL STUDENT-ATHLETES

• Ranked 10th in the South among top public universities and colleges by US News & World Report

• Ranked one of the top 50 "best values" for a public-college undergraduate education by Princeton Review

• Ranked "Best College Value" in Kiplinger's Personal Finance List for 2016

 • 450 student-athletes posted a department-wide 3.0 GPA in fall 2015

• All 20 varsity teams have a multi-year APR of 951 or higher

• Football (974) and men's basketball (970) have multi-year APR scores 31 and 25 points higher than their sports' respective national averages

• 10 teams had a perfect single-year APR of 1,000 in 2010-11

• 89 percent student-athlete freshman retention rate

• 33 percent of student-athletes and 25 percent of athletics department staff come from underrepresented populations
OUR ALUMNI

• Appalachian has an energized living alumni base of 119,483 with an average age of 32

• 87,908 alumni live in North Carolina's major population centers and within a three-hour drive of campus
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