

students identifying as Black, Native American and Hawaiian or Pacific Islander has remained relatively steady. studentsĪs ASU's student body has grown over the past three years, the share of U.S. Those students pay more in tuition than Arizona residents. In the past several years, nonresidents and international students have taken up larger segments of spring graduating classes. In spring 2020, there were about 8,900 resident students who graduated. In raw number terms, though, more Arizona students are graduating this year than three years ago. That's down a few percentage points from 2020, when most graduates - more than 54% - were Arizonans. Nearly half of this spring's graduating class are Arizona residents. Graduate degrees have seen the highest rate of growth, with ASU handing out a little over 1,000 more this spring than it did in 2020, and about 700 more than last year. The university's spring graduating class has grown by about 3,300 students since 2020. Big jump in the number of spring graduates Numbers for this spring are projections, as the university does not reconcile its final commencement numbers until June, after all ceremonies are complete.


To capture growth and shifts in the student population, The Arizona Republic asked the university to provide data on its spring graduates since 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. View Gallery: Photos: Arizona State University graduation ceremony 2023Īrizona State University will graduate about 20,000 students in May 2023, marking the end of the academic year with 30 commencement ceremonies over the span of a week.
