University of Colorado–Denver

The University of Colorado Denver is a public urban research university in downtown Denver and a campus of the University of Colorado system. It began as a 1912 extension of the University of Colorado and became a distinct campus in the 1970s. It shares the Auraria Campus with Metropolitan State University of Denver and Community College of Denver. The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora is a sister CU campus for health sciences.

Denver schools and colleges include business; engineering, design and computing; architecture and planning; public affairs; liberal arts and sciences; education and human development; and arts and media. Graduate students in health fields often work with Anschutz, which houses medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dental medicine, and public health. Urban planning, public affairs, engineering, and business are the downtown campus fields most visible at graduate level.

The Denver campus enrolls about 15,000 students, with a higher graduate and professional share than a typical undergraduate flagship. International students are a visible minority. Faculty number in the hundreds on the downtown campus and more when Anschutz is included. Alumni include Colorado public officials and practitioners in planning, business, and clinical professions trained on the two campuses.

Graduate study emphasizes professional master's degrees, PhDs, and practitioner doctorates, with evening and part-time schedules common downtown. The academic year is semesters. Research students are supported by assistantships and training grants. The campus sits in Denver's central business district, with light rail across the Front Range and easy access to state and city agencies that employ many of its graduates.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Colorado–Denver lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects, all of them doctoral programs, with the widest choice in civil engineering, politics & international relations and statistics.