Look up "Focused Excellence" if you want to see how the state run schools are divided up. To be really basic, UA is the research school, ASU is designed to draw as many people in as possible, and NAU is the liberal arts school. It isn't completely like that since ASU has some good science programs, the UA has some amazing fine arts people, and NAU has some decent business degrees.Yea i hear that a lot of UA and ASU students make fun of it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif