Colorado State University

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

Where the school stands out most compared to other schools (details below):

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

Other important characteristics:

• Faculty tenure system
• Library on-campus
• Campus housing available
• Student meal (board) plan
• Study abroad option
• Distance learning available
• Part-time classes available
• ROTC
• Athlete financial aid

Degrees Awarded (in 2008-2009)

Students

Student enrollment was 27,569 in 2007-2008 (24,272 full-time equivalent).

About 45% of the freshmen class in 2008-2009 was male and women were 55% of the class.

Undergrads are 77% of enrolled students, graduate students are 22%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 2%.

About 0% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 100% of incoming freshmen.

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

Tuition and Other Costs (2008-2009)

Financial Aid: Colorado State participates in US Title IV financial assistance programs.

Please refer to BrainTrack's financial aid articles section for background information.

Faculty

Tenure (2008-2009):

Housing and Meals

Colorado State provides on-campus housing for 5,240 of its 24,272 (full-time) students (as of 2008-2009). 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) .

Admissions (2008-2009)

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