Colorado State University

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a medium-sized city.

Overview

Colorado State University is a coeducational, public institution located in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was originally established as the Colorado Agricultural College in 1870--six years before the Colorado Territory gained statehood--and went through additional name changes before being called by its present name in 1957.

CSU is a land-grant institution and in 2008 was selected as a Carnegie Research University (for very high research activity)

Money Magazine ranked Fort Collins as the second Best Place to Live" in America in 2008. In 2006, it was ranked "Best Place to Live.

Students come from every state and more than 80 foreign countries.

Colorado State University's main campus stretches across 579 acres in central Fort Collins. CSU also encompasses the Foothills Campus, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Agricultural Campus, and the Pingree Park mountain campus.

Facilities include the new University for the Arts, including a music hall, concert hall, theater, dance and art museum.

The university consists of the following colleges and schools:

• College of Agricultural Sciences
• College of Applied Human Sciences
• College of Business
• College of Engineering
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Natural Sciences
• College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• Warner College of Natural Resources

CSU, a member of the NCAA at the Division I level-Mountain West Conference, sponsors 16 intercollegiate sports programs. The football team won its fifth bowl game in program history in 2008, defeating Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl.

Among the notable alumni of Colorado State University are actors John Amos and Keith Carradine, Academy Award winner; Baxter Black, cowboy poet; Steve Fairchild, former NFL offensive coordinator, current CSU football head coach; Samuel Walter McCandless, aerospace engineer turned technology consultant, perhaps best known as father of Chris McCandless of Into the Wild fame; Bill Ritter, Governor of Colorado, former Denver District Attorney; Ken Rominger, astronaut; Kim Ung-Yong, highest IQ (Guinness Book of Records); Amy Van Dyken, Olympic swinner, Gold Medalist; and Van Wolverton, author of Running MS_DOS and many other technical books.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in nutrition and exercise therapy, fine arts, animal science and care, landscaping and horticulture, science, family and social work, construction trades, conservation and resource management, and engineering technician.
• Large number of students.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High faculty salary.
• Superior share of faculty on tenure track.
• Affordable tuition & fees.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students have meal (board) plans.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 28,882 in 2009-2010 (24,200 full-time equivalent).

About 45% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 55% of the class.

Undergrads are 75% of enrolled students, graduate students are 23%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 2%.

Students under 25 years old represent 73% of the student body. About 6% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 99% are full-time and 1% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Colorado State provides on-campus housing for 5,240 of its 24,200 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 21 meals weekly.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Mountain West Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 143 male students received the aid (men were 52% of those receiving aid) and 134 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 48% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

Colorado State offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education and medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is STEM Dominant.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (96 awarded)

• Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations
• Agricultural Economics
• Agriculture

ANIMAL SCIENCE AND CARE (149 awarded)

• Animal Sciences
• Equestrian/Equine Studies

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (28 awarded)

• Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (822 awarded)

• Business Administration and Management
• Business/Commerce

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (109 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Information Science/Studies

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (130 awarded)

• Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management
• Forest Sciences and Biology
• Natural Resources/Conservation
• Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management
• Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management

CONSTRUCTION TRADES (87 awarded)

• Apparel and Textile Marketing Management

DESIGN (34 awarded)

• Interior Design

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (22 awarded)

• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (233 awarded)

• Agricultural Teacher Education
• Educational Administration and Supervision
• Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

ENGINEERING (320 awarded)

• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Science
• Engineering
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN (234 awarded)

• Construction Engineering Technology/Technician
• Engineering Technology
• Industrial Technology/Technician

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (475 awarded)

• Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
• Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies
• Human Development and Family Studies
• Human Nutrition
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (140 awarded)

• Fine/Studio Arts

HOSPITALITY (86 awarded)

• Restaurant/Food Services Management

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (91 awarded)

• Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations
• Horticultural Science
• Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management
• Range Science and Management
• Soil Science and Agronomy

LIBERAL ARTS (906 awarded)

• Anthropology
• Creative Writing
• Economics
• English Language and Literature
• Foreign Languages and Literatures
• History
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Sociology
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies

MATHEMATICS (83 awarded)

• Mathematics
• Statistics

MEDIA (287 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Communication and Media Studies
• Journalism
• Organizational Communication

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (40 awarded)

• Environmental Health

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (10 awarded)

• Radiologic Technology/Science - Radiographer

MEDICINE (141 awarded)

• Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
• Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sci, Gen (Cert,MS,PhD)

MUSIC (62 awarded)

• Music

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (342 awarded)

• Kinesiology and Exercise Science
• Occupational Therapy/Therapist
• Parks, Recreation and Leisure Facilities Management

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (30 awarded)

• Philosophy

SCIENCE (617 awarded)

• Animal Physiology
• Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
• Biochemistry
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biomedical Sciences
• Botany/Plant Biology
• Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Geology/Earth Science
• Microbiology
• Natural Sciences
• Pathology/Experimental Pathology
• Physics
• Wildlife Biology
• Zoology/Animal Biology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (235 awarded)

• Psychology