University of Northern Colorado

The University of Northern Colorado is a public university in Greeley, Colorado. It was founded in 1889 as the Colorado State Normal School to train teachers for the state, later became Colorado State College, and took its present name in 1970. Its defining fact is that teachers-college origin, now operating as a comprehensive regional university with doctoral programs.

Colleges include Education and Behavioral Sciences, Performing and Visual Arts, Natural and Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Monfort College of Business. Graduate strength is concentrated in education, counseling, nursing, sports and exercise science, and music. Performance halls and education clinics on the Greeley campus are the main graduate training sites.

About 9,000 students enroll, including a few thousand graduate students and a modest international intake. Faculty number several hundred. Novelist James A. Michener taught on the campus when it was a teachers college; alumni include science-fiction writer Connie Willis and many Colorado school administrators and nurses.

Graduate degrees include the Ph.D. and Ed.D. in education-related fields, master's degrees in teaching, nursing, and the arts, and professional programs that mix coursework with practicum supervision. The calendar is a standard U.S. semester. Students live in Greeley, a city on the Front Range plains about an hour north of Denver, on a compact residential campus.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Northern Colorado lists 1 doctoral program, in sport management.