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- Of 3,000 universities nationally, Angelo State University ranked 85th in endowment per student and 407th in the market value of endowment assets, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers.
- ASU's Carr Academic Scholarship Program provides scholarships for one in every six ASU students.
- The ASU Physics Department has been designated by Physics Today as one of the top 21 undergraduate programs nationally.
- More than half of ASU's graduates each semester are first-generation college students.
- ASU's Detachment 847 is one of the largest and most honored Air Force ROTC detachments at colleges and universities nationally.
- Since 1998, ASU students have maintained a 100 percent passing rate on the Texas Examination of Educator Standards (TExES) teacher certification test for secondary mathematics. From then through the spring of 2007, all 120 of the ASU students who have taken the exam after completing the mathematics program have passed.
- ASU has a student acceptance rate of 55 percent for medical school, compared to the statewide average of 35 percent.
- The ASU Agriculture Department's Undergraduate Meat and Food Science Quiz Bowl Team won the 2006 National Championship and finished second to Texas Tech University in 2007. ASU is the smallest school ever to claim the national title in the contest.
- Research by ASU graduate students in Dr. Shirley Eoff's modern American history class was cited in the acknowledgements of David Oshinsky's Polio: An American Story, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in History.
- Academics have always been important at Angelo State, even when the school was known as San Angelo College, which as early as 1936 was one of the few junior colleges accredited by SACS, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
- The ASU Planetarium is the fourth largest among the nation's colleges and universities.
- ASU was the first university in Texas to offer a degree in computer science. As home to the Texas State Data Center, ASU houses one of the most sophisticated computers in the state and through a contract with IBM provides backup and storage for many of the electronic records of the State of Texas.
Adree Lakey's 2007 NCAA Division II National Championship in the women's hammer throw was ASU's 40th track and field national title in men's and women's individual or relay competitions. - The Angelo State University Natural History Collection maintained by the Biology Department contains 2,100 bird species, 13,000 mammal specimens, 14,000 amphibian/and reptile specimens and 55,000 plant specimens from Texas and around the world, including the Galapagos Islands, the archipelago which contributed significantly to Charles Darwin's theories on natural selection as first published in his Origin of the Species in 1859.
- Located six miles north of San Angelo adjacent to O.C. Fisher Lake, ASU's Management, Instruction and Research (MIR) Center encompasses 6,000 acres of range and farmland that serve as a "laboratory" for agriculture students. The research and classroom facilities at the site include the Food Safety and Product Development Laboratory.
- Only a handful of schools have ever sent both their softball and baseball teams to the College World Series in the same year. ASU accomplished this feat in 2007. In 2004 the Rambelles won the NCAA Division II National Championship in softball.
All graduates of ASU's young Honors Program who have applied to graduate programs or professional schools, including medicine, have been accepted.- With international studies programs in Germany, Russia, France, Scotland, Costa Rica and Mexico, Angelo State continues an international studies program that began with the institution's first offerings in 1948 in Chihuahua, Mexico.
- Two ASU students were named Gates Millennium Scholars for the 2006-07 academic year. Both Isabel Barrios of El Paso and Jose Munoz of Eldorado received scholarships exceeding $10,000. Barrios is majoring in interdisciplinary child development and learning. Munoz is majoring in animal science. The scholarships were funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.