The University of Colorado at Boulder provides an outstanding academic setting on one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States. More than a dozen of its academic programs are ranked in the top 25 in the United States, and the university as a whole ranked 34th in the world in a 2006 survey. The University is also proud of the quality and diversity of its students, who come from every state in the nation and over 100 foreign countries.

The University has nine colleges and schools, which include the College of Architecture and Planning, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Leeds School of Business, the College of Engineering and Applied Science, the College of Music, the Graduate School, the School of Education, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the School of Law.

CU-Boulder offers over 3,400 courses each year in 150 fields of study. 85 majors are offered at the bachelor’s level, 61 at the master’s level and 48 at the doctoral level. Classes are taught by outstanding faculty; four of them have received Nobel Prizes and seven have received MacArthur Fellowships, known as “genius grants.” Students have the opportunity to learn in the classroom, in the laboratory and outside of the classroom through research, mentoring and other programs.