UCAR maintains A-plus credit rating

BOULDER – The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research based in Boulder has had its A-plus long-term rating and underlying rating affirmed this month by credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s for the eighth consecutive year.

UCAR, a nonprofit consortium of 73 universities with doctorate programs in the atmospheric sciences and related disciplines, manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder under sponsorship by the National Science Foundation. It had an annual budget of $210 million in fiscal year 2008.

In its report, Standard & Poor’s cited UCAR’s long and mutually beneficial relationship with the NSF, its stable and growing membership base…