The Campus

• Located in sunny Tempe, Arizona, near the heart of downtown Phoenix, a booming urban center in the Sonoran desert
• Four hours from Mexico and two hours from the mountains
• Open 24/7
• Hundreds of computers in just about every corner of campus
• Designed using Feng Shui principles
• Close to every desert sport imaginable - golf, mountain biking, hiking, swimming, rollerblading, skateboarding

Academics

• UAT offers 20 undergraduate degrees in advancing technology disciplines, including our most popular majors: Game Design, Game Programming, Network Security, Technology Forensics, Digital Video, and Robotics and Embedded Systems.
• UAT offers 5 graduate degrees in such disciplines as Advancing Computer Science, Emerging Technologies, Game Production and Management, Information Assurance and Technology Leadership.
• UAT combined educational "global best practices" with its own research to create a learning model called Synchronic Learning.
  

The Alumni

• Our esteemed alumni work for leading technology companies such as Microsoft, the NSA, NASDAQ, LexisNexis, Electronic Arts (EA), Intel, Motorola and Neversoft
• For those students who graduated, and reported, from July 2010 to June 2011, the placement rate is: 76.61%
• For those students who graduated, and reported, from July 2011 to June 2012, the placement rate is: 80.69%

Students and Faculty

Based on actual numbers from Fall 2012 semester:

• 800+ students on campus and online, representing all 50 states and 4 continents
• 68 full- and part-time faculty members, distinguished by their academic abilities and accomplishments within their respective fields, who serve as both instructors and mentors
• Average Class Size: 16
• Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 13:1

Admissions

Acceptance Rate: The following data reflects the students that were accepted between January 1st-December 31st of the following years:

• 2006 81.93%
• 2007 79.38%
• 2008 72.59%
• 2009 63.29%
• 2010 76.51%
• 2011 72.08%

Academic Progress

Retention Rate is the number of students enrolled in UAT in the Fall semester that are still enrolled at the university a year later. This includes continuing enrollment, new enrollment, graduates and withdrawn students.

• Retention Rate - 76.72% as measured from July 2010 to June 2011.

Persistence Rate is the number of students that return semester to semester.

• Persistence Rate - 90.62% of students who started their degree in Fall of 2011 persisted, continuing through their first semester.

Graduation Rate is the number of first-time freshmen starting class in the Fall semester only, divided by the number of this group who graduate within five years.

• Graduation Rate - 35% of the freshmen starting class in Fall of 2005 graduated within five years.
• If we include the number of freshmen starting that semester who attended another school prior to UAT and transferred in credits to their program of study, the Graduation Rate is 42%.

Incoming Freshmen Fall 2012

• Average incoming GPA 3.0
• Average SAT Score: 1579 (out of 2400)
• Average ACT Score: 26

Financial Aid

• Percent of Fall 2012 undergraduate students receiving a UAT scholarships: 32%
• Percent of students receiving any scholarships: 65%
• Average scholarship received per academic year: $2,212

Tuition Costs

2013 Tuition (May 2013 - Aug 2013)

• Undergraduate tuition: $10,500 per semester
• Graduate tuition: $6,350 per semester
• UAT-Online tuition: $6,000 per semester
• UAT-Online Accelerated tuition: $9,300 per semester

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Activities and Student Organizations

• Over 20 student clubs and organizations like DC480, the Paintball Team, Net Security Club, and the Photography Club
• On-campus events include Geek Week, Live Action Games, LAN Parties, Guitar Hero tournaments and Thanksgiving dinner