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Welcome, Mountaineers!

Before classes begin Monday, take a moment to explore campus, meet up with friends and enjoy App State’s welcome events and activities, which continue through the beginning of the semester. These include live music at Legends, free sweet treats, club sign-ups, games on Sanford Mall and more!

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Discover Research at Appalachian

Discover Research at Appalachian

Our faculty engage in research critical to understanding environmental changes and their impacts, locally and across the globe. One example — installing Mount Everest weather stations to provide data on mountain conditions and monitor the upper reaches of the atmosphere.

More about research at Appalachian

Find your sustainability

Find your sustainability

Sustainability and resilience are guiding principles at App State and institutionally interwoven into our strategic plan, academic mission, engagement locally and globally and day-to-day best practices. We are recognized as a national leader for our endeavors.

What’s in App’s future?

What’s in App’s future?

We’re enhancing the Appalachian Experience — with a stronger physical infrastructure and five-year goals that further empower human potential. Get the full picture through a new, special website detailing our growth and change.

Consider graduate school at Appalachian

Consider graduate school at Appalachian

The Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies offers more than 75 graduate degree and certificate programs to help you achieve your goals.

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  • App State ranks among ‘Best’ schools in US, Southeast for 2021 and 2022
    App State ranks among ‘Best’ schools in US, Southeast for 2021 and 2022

    App State ranks among the nation’s “Best” and “Top” colleges for 2021 and 2022, according to U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine. The national publications recently recognized App State for its academics, innovation, benefits for student veterans, programs to enhance the first-year experience and other aspects.

  • App State MBA ranks among world’s top tier programs for 2022 — CEO Magazine
    App State MBA ranks among world’s top tier programs for 2022 — CEO Magazine

    App State’s full-time, on-campus Master of Business Administration (MBA) has been named a Tier One program by CEO Magazine — part of the publication’s “2022 Global MBA Rankings.” App State has held the Tier One distinction for six consecutive years, and its online MBA was ranked alongside 98 internationally recognized programs.

  • App State Online programs rank among nation’s best in 2022 — US News & World Report
    App State Online programs rank among nation’s best in 2022 — US News & World Report

    U.S. News & World Report has named App State to its “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs” and “Best Online Master’s in Education Programs” lists — both part of its 2022 “Best Online Programs” rankings.

  • A black and gold world — 6 Mountaineers share how App State prepared them for life, career success
    A black and gold world — 6 Mountaineers share how App State prepared them for life, career success

    Preparing students to become engaged global citizens is at the heart of App State’s mission. Meet six international Mountaineers who have found career success through their App State Experience.

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Events

  • Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?
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    Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?
    Jul 23 - Aug 31, 2022

    The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the public to view and ponder “Shoah: How Was it Humanly Possible?” — the first exhibit from Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in Jerusalem to reach the App State campus. The exhibition examines major historical aspects of the Holocaust, beginning with Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe and ending with the liberation of Nazi concentration and extermination camps across the continent and the remarkable return to life of the survivors.

  • Welcome to App
    Aug
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    Welcome to App
    August 16 - 31, 2022

    Welcome to App is an extension of summer orientation and is geared toward helping new students learn their way around campus, making friends and learning more about the university before classes start. The schedule includes programs that will help students feel comfortable and confident about life in and out of the classroom. Many of the events are just about making friends and having fun!

  • Games, Painting and Trivia
    Aug
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    Games, Painting and Trivia
    August 19, 2022
    1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

    Fun Games in the Multicultural Center, tote bag painting on Sanford Mall and trivia in the LGBTQ+ Center.

  • Wheel of Possibilities
    Aug
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    Wheel of Possibilities
    August 19, 2022
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Come by the Career Development Center on the second floor of the Student Union to jumpstart your career journey at App State. Participate in Wheel of Possibilities to learn more about the Career Development Center and win a prize! We will also provide resources to assist you in finding part-time jobs, choosing a major, finding internships, developing your resume and more.

  • Don't Rock the Block: Giant Jenga with Title IX
    Aug
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    Don't Rock the Block: Giant Jenga with Title IX
    August 19, 2022
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Come meet the staff in the Office of Title IX Compliance! We will have giant Jenga blocks with various questions to talk about all things Title IX. Be lucky enough to pick a block that does not have a question, and there will be some fun in store for you. We will have our prize wheel ready to deliver some awesome swag.

  • Appol Corps Time
    Aug
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    Appol Corps Time
    August 19, 2022
    1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

    Your assigned Appol Corps Orientation Leaders will come by your residence hall floor to get you. This is the official beginning of Welcome to App 2022.

  • Campus Crawl
    Aug
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    Campus Crawl
    August 19, 2022
    1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Join the Case Management team for a crawl through campus. Speak directly with members of the Appalachian community and collect free App swag along the way. From personal health to academic success, we've got you covered. There will be periodic trivia breaks with awesome prizes. We hope that you will join us for an afternoon of exploration.

  • Welcome To App Key Log Rolling
    Aug
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    Welcome To App Key Log Rolling
    August 19, 2022
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Join University Recreation for a cool Log Rolling session in the Student Recreation Center pool. You can register on your own or with a friend and try your skills at log rolling. It is a super fun event designed for anyone; no experience required.

  • Founders Day 2022
    Sep
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    Founders Day 2022
    September 6, 2022

    Our annual fall celebration honors our founders and the first day of classes held in 1899 at Watauga Academy — the small school that flourished into the App State we know today.

  • Yola
    Sep
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    Yola
    September 16, 2022
    7:00 pm

    “Stand for Myself” — the anthemic new album from Yola — is a timeless masterpiece marking an idiosyncratic sonic shift, which will defy all expectation. A sophisticated and diverse sonic mix of symphonic soul and classic pop, tracing an expansive musical thread to Yola’s most eclectic musical inspirations. Yola’s inimitable vocals share nuanced stories of allyship, black feminine strength through vulnerability, collective awakening, and loving connection from the sexual to the social.

  • Poet Savannah Sipple
    Sep
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    Poet Savannah Sipple
    September 22, 2022
    6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

    Savannah Sipple is the author of “WWJD & Other Poems” (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), which was included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Recommended LGBTQ Reading List. It explores what it is to be a queer woman in Appalachia and is rooted in its culture and in her body. A writer from east Kentucky, her writing has been published in Still, Salon, Go Magazine, Southern Cultures, Split This Rock and elsewhere.

  • Fall 2022 Open House
    Oct
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    Fall 2022 Open House
    October 8, 2022

    Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.

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