University Of Colorado At Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder was founded in 1876, the same year the state was formally established. Old Main housed not only the first classrooms but the president's home, library and janitor's quarters.

The university is Colorado's flagship public research university. It is one of 34 U.S. public institutions belonging to the prestigious Association of American Universities and the only member in the Rocky Mountain region.

The main campus, set against the Flatirons, covers more than 780 acres in Boulder. It was the first of the current three-campus University of Colorado system.

The University of Colorado at Boulder is a Tier 1 research institution that received more than $280 million in sponsored research awards for the 2008 fiscal year--placing it 13th nationally and sixth among all public universities.

The university offers more than 150 academic programs and is organized into several colleges and schools. These include:

• College of Architecture and Planning
• College of Arts and Sciences
• College of Engineering and Applied Science
• College of Music
• Graduate School
• Leeds School of Business
• School of Education
• School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• School of Law

CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics is one of an elite group of university space centers able to meet the increasingly stringent requirements of space exploration in the new millennium.

CU-Boulder is one of only three U.S. colleges and universities to receive a 2007 Presidential Award for General Community Service.

CU-Boulder's mascot in all intercollegiate athletics--going back to 1934--is a real buffalo named Ralphie. In 2006 the ski team won the NCAA National Collegiate Skiing Championship for the 17th time. Overall, CU-Boulder has won 22 national championships, including four in cross country and one in football.

Famous alumni of the University of Colorado at Boulder are Alan Kay, a Turing Award-winning computer scientist; Christopher McKay, planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center; Academy Award-winning writer Dalton Trumbo; Kalpana Chawla, the NASA astronaut who died on the Space Shuttle Columbia; Byron White, the associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Ward Darley, president, University of Colorado; Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist and author of On Death and Dying; Judy Collins, folk musician; Dave Grusin, award-winning composer; actor Christopher Meloni; and John Wooten, All-American, played for Cleveland Browns.

Robert Redford, actor and founder of Sundance Film Festival, attended but did graduate.

Highlights

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

• Many students concentrating in therapy and counseling, religion and philosophy, music, media, engineering, science, architecture and planning, liberal arts, conservation and resource management, fine arts, and mathematics.
• Large number of students.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• High faculty salary.
• High male/female ratio.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).

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 31,796 in 2007-2008 (27,999 full-time equivalent).

About 50% of the freshmen class in 2008-2009 was male and women were 50% of the class.

Undergrads are 83% of enrolled students, graduate students are 16%, and those seeking first-professional graduate degrees represent 1%.

About 1% of freshmen are from countries other than the US. Students living in the US make up 99% of incoming freshmen.

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

Tuition and Other Costs (2008-2009)

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

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Housing and Meals

University Of Colorado provides on-campus housing for 6,700 of its 27,999 (full-time) students (as of 2008-2009). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 19 meals weekly.

Athletics

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

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 160 male students received the aid (men were 65% of those receiving aid) and 88 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 35% of students receiving such aid) .

Admissions (2008-2009)

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