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University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus was awarded 444 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is biology studies.
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CU Anschutz landed the #585 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking.
CU Anschutz is also ranked #7 out of 33 schools in Colorado.
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University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus has an acceptance rate of 72%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.
About 29% of students accepted to CU Anschutz submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 630. Math scores were between 510 and 620.
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The student to faculty ratio at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is about average at 17 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is 69%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 75% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
When we say that a student has graduated on time, we mean that they have finished their bachelor's degree within four years. The on-time graduation rate at CU Anschutz is 24%. That's lower than the national rate of 33.3%
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 14,994 undergraduates at CU Anschutz with 8,622 being full-time and 6,372 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $10,404 | $12,017 | $15,406 | $19,860 | $21,504 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of CU Anschutz, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At CU Anschutz, approximately 29% of students took out student loans averaging $6,546 a year. That adds up to $26,184 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at CU Anschutz is 2.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for CU Anschutz are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1380 Lawrence Street, Lawrence Street Center, Suite 1400, Denver, CO 80217-3364 |
| Phone: | 303-556-5600 |
| Website: | www.ucdenver.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/UCDenver |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/cudenver |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 480 | $46,506 |
| Nursing | 274 | $59,258 |
| General Biology | 267 | $31,856 |
| General Psychology | 172 | $33,604 |
| Communication & Media Studies | 166 | $37,733 |
| Economics | 146 | $40,044 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 118 | $30,618 |
| Music | 105 | $24,558 |
| Architectural Sciences & Technology | 89 | NA |
| Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology | 85 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 13,804 students took at least one online class at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. This is a decrease from the 18,704 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 13,804 | 5,145 |
| 2019-2020 | 18,704 | 11,000 |
| 2018-2019 | 7,637 | 2,574 |
| 2017-2018 | 7,343 | 2,420 |
| 2016-2017 | 6,582 | 2,316 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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