Auburn University

Established in 1856, Auburn University is a comprehensive land-grant, doctoral-granting institution. Located in Auburn, Ala., the main campus of the university is a multi-million dollar complex of more than 89 major buildings on 1,843 acres. The university has a statewide presence through the Agricultural Experiment Station and conducts research throughout the state, and has Extension agents located in all 67 Alabama counties. 

More than 24,000 students enrolled in the fall of 2007, and the university has more than 1,100 full-time faculty.  It has 12 schools and colleges that offer more than 200 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, ranging from the sciences and engineering to the social sciences, humanities, and creative arts.   

Consistently ranked high, AU rated 39^th among public universities nationwide in the U.S. News & World Report’s issue of America’s Best Colleges 2007.  More information on Auburn University can be found at www.auburn.edu.

Auburn University is ranked among the top research universities in the country and is classified as a research institution with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation.  Within the traditional land- grant strengths of agriculture and forestry, engineering, veterinary medicine, and basic sciences, interdisciplinary research focus areas include national security, information technology, food safety and quality, fisheries and aquaculture, transportation, cellular and molecular bioscience, and energy along with a wide variety of other research programs in other areas.  Many programs are nationally ranked and AU faculty are internationally recognized for their research.  More information on the research programs at Auburn University can be found at www.auburn.edu/research/vpr. 

Technology Transfer

Auburn University faculty are not only generating new knowledge through their research, but they are also creating technologies for commercialization as evidenced by the 80-100 invention disclosures received annually by the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT).  The professionally staffed OTT manages an impressive portfolio of intellectual properties.  OTT evaluates, protects, and licenses technologies and forms start-up companies based on technologies generated by Auburn University faculty and students.  More information about technology transfer at Auburn University can be found at www.auburn.edu/research/vpr/ipttadm.

Business Development 

Auburn University offers a variety of programs that promote entrepreneurship, provide technical assistance to businesses, and aid in business development.  For example, some of these programs include the Lowder Center for Family Business and Entrepreneurship, Auburn Technical Assistance Center, and the Small Business Development Center that reside in the AU College of Business, and the Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.  More information about these programs can be found at www.business.auburn.edu/.

Auburn University is a comprehensive land-grant, doctoral granting institution.  The University offers degrees in 13 schools and colleges at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels with traditional land grant academic and research strengths in agriculture, engineering, veterinary medicine, and the STEM disciplines as well as the humanities, arts and social sciences. 

Auburn University is largest research university in Alabama and one of the largest universities in the South with over 24,137 students enrolled on the main campus in fall of 2007, for the highest enrollment in the history of the university, and approximately 1200 faculty and over 4000 graduate and professional students. It is classified as a Research University with ‘high research activity’ by the Carnegie Foundation.