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Auburn University
AuburnALAbove.jpg
Campus from above
Motto "For the advancement of science and arts"
Established 1856
Type Public
Endowment $378.6 million
President Jay Gogue
Admin. staff 1,200
Students 24,137
Undergraduates 20,302
Postgraduates 3,245
Location Auburn, Alabama, United States
Campus Suburban
Athletics NCAA Division I FBS
Nickname Tigers
Mascot Aubie the Tiger
Website www.auburn.edu

Auburn University is a university in the U.S. state of Alabama. Auburn University is in the city of Auburn, Alabama. People can usually just say Auburn for short when they are talking about the University. There are about 24,000 students in school at Auburn.

Auburn opened February 1, 1856 but was named the East Alabama Male College. The university changed the name many times until 1960 when it was named Auburn University. Auburn is one of three large universities in Alabama. The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama has the same number of students and the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama is the third largest. Auburn University has 12 colleges on campus, including agriculture, architecture, business, education, engineering, forestry, human sciences, liberal arts, nursing, pharmacy, mathematics, and medicine.

The Auburn University sports teams are named the Auburn Tigers and the mascot is a tiger named Aubie.

Images for kids

  • 1883 Old Main Building South College Street Auburn Alabama

    "Old Main", the first building on Auburn's campus, was destroyed by fire in 1887

  • 1890s Samford Hall Auburn Alabama

    Samford Hall in the 1890s

  • Auburn cadets

    API Cadets drill on Ross Square in 1918.

  • AuburnUniversity-SamfordHall

    Samford Hall, located on College Street in Auburn, houses the University's administration.

  • Ross Chemical Laboratory - Auburn University - IMG 2799

    Ross Hall, home to Auburn's Department of Chemical Engineering

  • Auburn 2013 Campus Aerial CM

    Jordan-Hare Stadium, Auburn Arena, The Village residence halls, Haley Center, and Samuel Ginn Engineering Complex in 2013

  • William J. Samford Hall

    Samford Hall at dusk

  • Ralph Brown Draughon Library - Auburn University - IMG 2806

    Auburn's main central library, the Ralph Brown Draughon Library

  • Aubie-01

    Aubie, the Auburn University Tiger Mascot

  • Auburn Tigers

    Tiger statue outside Jordan–Hare Stadium

  • Jordan hare stadium

    Jordan–Hare Stadium, 2005

  • Rolling Toomers Corner Auburn University

    The Auburn tradition of rolling Toomer's Corner after a sports win

  • AuburnWatertower

    Water tower bearing logo


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