
A new campus was built for ASU-Heber Springs, which operates as a sister campus of ASU-Beebe.

Delta Technical Institute at Marked Tree merged with ASU and became Arkansas State University Technical Center on July 1, 2001. The Mountain Home campus officially became ASU-Mountain Home on July 1, 1995. It associated with White River Vo-Tech at Newport in 1992 that campus attained stand-alone status and is now Arkansas State University-Newport. Arkansas State University-Beebe became part of the ASU System in 1955. The ASU system includes campuses in Jonesboro (Craighead County), which offers degree programs through the doctoral level Beebe (White County), Mountain Home (Baxter County), and Newport (Jackson County), where associate degree programs are offered and at Heber Springs, Marked Tree, and Searcy. The ASU SystemĪSU's Fowler Center is a regional center for The Arts. Programs at the specialist's, master's, bachelor's and associate degree levels are available through the various colleges: Agriculture and Technology, Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Media and Communication, Nursing and Health Professions, Sciences and Mathematics, and University College. Today, the institution has more than 70,000 alumni.

Newer doctoral programs are in environmental science, molecular biosciences and physical therapy. A second doctoral program, in environmental science, was begun in the fall of 1997, and the doctoral program in heritage studies began in the fall of 2001. Master's degree graduate programs were initiated in 1955, and ASU began offering its first doctoral degree, in educational leadership, in the fall of 1992. Arkansas State University-Querétaro, A future campus planned to open in Querétaro, Mexico.

Arkansas State University-Paragould, an instructional site of the Jonesboro campus.Campusesįor other Arkansas State University campuses, see Arkansas State University System. The university marked its centennial year in 2009. It is located atop 1,376 acres (5.6 km2) on Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. Arkansas State University student union, Jonesboro, ArkansasĪrkansas State University (also known as A-State) is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and second largest university by enrollment.
