About Appalachian State University

Appalachian State University (/ˌæpəˈlætʃən/; Appalachian, App State, App, or ASU) is a public academe in Boone, North Carolina. It was founded as a teachers bookish in 1899 by brothers B.B. and D.D. Dougherty and D.D.’s wife, Lillie Shull Dougherty. The academic world expanded to tally up other programs in 1967 and joined the University of North Carolina System in 1971.

The university circles is portion of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls more than 20,000 students. It offers higher than 150 bachelor’s degrees and 70 graduate degree programs, including two doctoral programs.

Boone is a town in and the county chair of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the house of Appalachian State University and the headquarters for the smash up and medical relief direction Samaritan’s Purse. The population was 17,122 at the 2010 census.

The town is named for well-known American explorer and traveler Daniel Boone, and all summer, other than 2020, from 1952 has hosted an outside amphitheatre drama, Horn in the West, portraying the British settlement of the area during the American Revolutionary War and featuring the contributions of its namesake. It is the largest community and the economic hub of the seven-county region of Western North Carolina known as the High Country.