Rankings of Auburn University in the United States

Auburn University, or AU or Auburn for short, founded in 1856, is the largest university in the state of Alabama and the first traditionally white university in the state to admit black students.

As one of the oldest and most prestigious centuries-old universities in the southern United States, Auburn University has an alumni network of more than 300,000, with an enrollment of 30,440 students, and many distinguished alumni who are now active in all walks of life in the social state, including Tim Cook, the current CEO of Apple; Jimmy Wales, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia; and media mogul Don Logan, the former CEO of Time Warner, to name a few.

Auburn University is located in the college town of Auburn, Alabama, about an hour and a half drive from Atlanta, the largest city in the southeastern United States, Auburn is a nationally renowned college town, in 2018, "Livability" named Auburn as "the most livable places" in the top 100, the Princeton Review Livability ranked Auburn in the top 100 "Most Livable Places" in 2018, and The Princeton Review named Auburn a "Top 10 University for Quality of Life". The Princeton Review named Auburn one of the "Top 10 Universities for Quality of Life.

The Auburn University campus consists of 1,841 acres, 427 buildings, the nation's top-ranked fitness center, the Auburn University Student Center, three large libraries, and 35 dining venues.