CU Boulder all the way!!!

Anonymous wrote:They are both basically community colleges. Only 16% of undergrads live on campus at CS and they don't even have dorms for Denver.

Absolutely not true. Check out this list of notable alums. Chevron's recently named CEO is a grad as well. CU Boulder is a great school, in an incredibly gorgeous environment. Your son/daughter could do a lot worse than spend 4 years in a fantastic university town with great school spirit, super smart kids, top programs in engineering, astronomy, chem and more.

https://www.colorado.edu/alumni/notable-alumni

They all suck.

UMCP $51k OOS
UC Boulder $52K OOS

Not so outrageous and not so different in quality.

I get it OP - Boulder is outrageously priced. Hard to swallow

Absolutely Boulder. +2 to the satellite campuses being commuter schools...not an ideal college experience

Boulder, definitely. The other two are not even in the same stratosphere. Unless student reaaallly wants to be in Colorado, I don’t know why the other two would really even come up on a out-of-state kid’s radar?

Boulder all the way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are both basically community colleges. Only 16% of undergrads live on campus at CS and they don't even have dorms for Denver.

community college typically offers two years of college classes. I think you're confused.

You know I am not confused. I meant commuter college. No one lives on campus. Over 93% in-state kids and only 16% live on campus in Colorado Springs and no dorms at all for Denver. You aren't going to get a great college experience there.

Anonymous wrote:They are both basically community colleges. Only 16% of undergrads live on campus at CS and they don't even have dorms for Denver.

community college typically offers two years of college classes. I think you're confused.

Anonymous wrote:UColorado unless the student is some real outliner demographic

What does this even mean? They're all University of Colorado.

UColorado unless the student is some real outliner demographic

My brother is working on his EE degree and transferred last fall from UCCS to Colorado State U in Ft Collins. He’s an “older” student and they moved because his wife got a promotion and transfer.

He really missed UCCS. He said the quality of the instruction was better—he had smaller classes and better access to professors. I think UCCS is more focused on undergraduate education and wouldn’t be surprised if there were similar differences at UC Boulder.

FWIW, UCCS is really growing. My DS did a summer soccer camp there and was impressed by the facilities. They have a new performing arts center and they’ve been building more dorms and private student apartment buildings have sprung up in the area. I believe there is a new healthy sciences building going up as well. It is becoming less of a commuter school and definitely isn’t a community college.

They are both basically community colleges. Only 16% of undergrads live on campus at CS and they don't even have dorms for Denver.

Does anyone have any experience with any of these? Is there an academic difference or variablility among the three? I know Boulder is bigger and is the "main" one, as reflected by the significantly higher OOS tuition, but is there a real differentiator in the quality of UG education?