Kaila White

The Republic | azcentral.com

The more than 11,500 freshmen flooding Arizona State University's five campuses this month make up the university's largest, most diverse freshman class ever.

It's at least the second year in a row the university's freshman class has topped the last in size — 2015 was the first time the new class topped 11,000.

They come from every state and 74 countries, according to ASU.

The class of 2020 also has the most freshmen from Arizona in the university's history, with almost 7,000 locals in the mix.

Half of those Arizonans are from underrepresented populations, helping make this freshman class ASU's most diverse ever.

Downtown Phoenix campus sets record

About 2,000 freshmen are entering Barrett, the Honors College "with high school marks at the level of American Ivy League Schools," according to ASU.

Of those 11,500 newbies, 9,000 are attending the Tempe campus, 570 are at Polytechnic in Mesa and 450 are going to the West campus.

ASU's downtown Phoenix campus is celebrating its 10th anniversary with 1,500 freshmen, bringing the total number of students there to a record 13,000, according to ASU Now.

A mere 35 are going to the Lake Havasu City campus. That campus has a total of 155 students this fall, according to Today's News-Herald.

Another record: Most graduates in one year

Another mark of the university's endless growth: Last year it also had the most graduates ever in one ASU academic year, with more than 21,000 people graduating in the 2015-2016 school year.

About 13,000 of those graduates were at spring commencement, where Olympic gold medalist Jessica Hardy sat among her fellow ASU graduates at Chase Field in Phoenix.

First look at new ASU law school building in downtown Phoenix