Education

Northern Colorado is home to Colorado State University in Fort Collins and the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, as well as community colleges and other institutions of higher education.

With a fall 2011 enrollment of 30,450 students, CSU offers a variety of highly sought-after degree programs, including engineering, energy research, business, veterinary sciences, bioscience and other disciplines. The university awarded 6,176 degrees in 2011.

CSU was recently ranked 128th of 262 national universities in the U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of “America’s Best Colleges and Universities.”

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The most-recent economic impact report on CSU found that the university’s Colorado-based alumni – about 90,000 at the time the report was produced – accounted for more than $4.1 billion in household income, representing 3.1 percent of Colorado’s total household income.

CSU, according to the report, generates more than $300 million in annual research expenditures.

CSU President Tony Frank has established environmentally friendly initiatives as one of the core missions of the university.

The result was that CSU achieved the highest score among 129 reporting universities participating in a national survey of higher-education institutions dedicated to sustainability measures — the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Reporting System, known as STARS.

CSU is in the top four nationally for solar power at major public research universities, according to a report released in October 2011 by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, or AASHE.

UNC in Greeley, meanwhile, recorded total enrollment in the fall of 2011 of more than 12,000 students and offers more than 100 undergraduate programs.

The university, led by President Kay Norton since 2002, is nationally known for its arts, nursing, business, human sciences and education programs.

The Monfort College of Business at UNC is the only business college to have won a Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award. The honor led to the creation of the Monfort Institute, which works with Baldrige winners and other organizations to maintain high levels of quality.

The College of Business also holds an annual competition for entrepreneurs called the Monfort College of Business Entrepreneurial Challenge. Participants undergo a variety of tests before presenting their business plans to a group of business experts.