When of 2004, a university has 20,000 students. 14,000 one come placed in the independent Flagstaff campus. Although primarily an training institution, NAU undertakes the growing total of the food and drug administration. A school is known for its specialties in the education program & its hotel & eating place management computer program.

History
At a start known as the Northern Arizona Normal School it was formed in September 11, 1899. Around 1925, the State of Arizona recognized a school, permitting it to grant the degree of bachelor of education. A institution renamed itself a Northern Arizona State Teachers College as a consequence this.

Inside 1945, its name changed over again to the Arizona State College at Flagstaff. A year late a college began offering a degrees of master of arts and bachelor of science. Around 1966 its name changed again to the todays Northern Arizona University (or even NAU) whilst it was granted fully university status.

A university has an award-winning (http://www.lumberjackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/04/07/4074bf7f5efc7) every week independently student-rerun newspaper known as [The Lumberjack], which occurs as 91-season-old publication, 2nd-oldest within Northern Arizona. In their "Student Media Connection" around NAU's Communication Deptartment, trio student medias (a radio station, the tv station & the newspaper) altogether coexist in the equivalent professional, one of lone trinity such as it in the united states.

Athletics
When of January 2005, Northern Arizona University's colors come blue, sage green, and gold. Their nickname is the Lumberjacks. Northern Arizona sports teams participate inside NCAA Division I (I-AA for football) in the Big Sky Conference. NAU has besides hosted Arizona Cardinals training camp every year since a Cardinals moved to Arizona except 2005, due to an outbreak of norovirus.