Auburn University

university

Auburn University  link () Facebook Instagram Twitter Website YouTube
File:Auburn University Logo.png
Formation	7 February 1856
Headquarters	Auburn, Alabama,USA
Alabama University with many military alumni

Auburn University (also known as AU or Auburn) is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. It is the second largest university in the state after the University of Alabama. The university is one of 13 universities in the United States that have received state support through the "land-grant", "sea-grant" and "space-grant" programs. The university has a particularly high reputation in the fields of architecture, engineering and economics.

Military

ROTC programs are available in three branches of service: Air Force, Army, and Navy/Marine Corps with the latter being the only one in Alabama. Over 100 officers that attended Auburn became generals or admirals, including one, Carl Epting Mundy Jr., who became Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. Auburn is one of only seven universities in the Nuclear Enlisted Commissioning Program, and has historically been one of the top ROTC producers of Navy nuclear submarine officers.

In addition to the ROTC graduates commissioned through Auburn, two alumni from Auburn, four-star generals Hugh Shelton and Richard Myers, became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the last decade. Both officers received their commissions elsewhere, and attended Auburn for an M.S. (Shelton) and M.B.A. (Myers).

Segregation

Auburn University was racially segregated prior to 1963, with only white students being admitted. According to Auburn University's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, African-Americans comprise 1,828 of the university's 24,864 undergraduates (7.35%) as of 2013 and 49 of the 1,192 full-time faculty (4.1%) as of 2012.