Instruction and Academics
Laying a Foundation to Fulfull
the Hopes and Dreams of Students
Teaching is the focus of Auburn’s comprehensive programs. Students report that they find Auburn to have a highly supportive learning environment, and more than 96 percent of graduates say their learning here has contributed to successful career paths and rewarding lives.
Auburn’s core curriculum lays the foundation for advanced study and career preparation and students’ personal and intellectual growth. It provides students with a common set of experiences, develops their powers of analysis and communication, and encourages their understanding of human culture and the natural world.
Auburn offers baccalaureate degrees in nearly 150 areas across a broad spectrum of disciplines and provides the state’s only publicly supported programs in many fields, including several in agriculture, architecture, building science, forestry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine. Strong baccalaureate programs can also be found in the colleges of Business, Education, Engineering, Human Sciences, Sciences and Mathematics, and Liberal Arts. For many years, ROTC programs at Auburn have also been nationally prominent in providing leadership for the military.
While Auburn has long been recognized for the quality and diversity of its undergraduate and first-professional programs, expanding commitment to research has broadened the scope of the university’s graduate programs. Auburn provides master’s level programs in 130 areas and awards the doctorate in nearly 100 fields, many of which are the state’s only doctoral programs. Graduate programs are in agriculture, the biological and physical sciences, education, engineering, forestry, the human sciences, mathematics, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, the liberal arts, and the social sciences. The university’s strategic plan calls for expanded research activity and graduate instruction, an expanded Honors College model, and more intensive international learning.
Instruction/Academic Highlights
• U.S. News & World Report has ranked Auburn among the top 50 public universities nationwide for 17 consecutive years.
• Auburn is ranked a “Best Value” by the Princeton Review.
• More than 95 percent of our alumni say that if they could start college over again, they would again choose Auburn.
• Auburn is the only university in the country to offer an undergraduate degree in wireless engineering and the first in the Southeast to offer degrees in software engineering.
• Auburn is known for its “rocket science”—six NASA astronauts graduated from Auburn and three past directors of Kennedy Space Center are Auburn alumni.
• Auburn’s Ralph Draughon Library is the largest library in the state. The Auburn University Libraries contain 2.9 million volumes and subscribe to 19,000 journals and 256 electronic databases.
Auburn has awarded more than 250,100 academic degrees. A 2005-06 Harvard survey ranked Auburn as one of the top six colleges and universities in the country as a place for young faculty to work.
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