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Rankings and Accolades

Updated March 2010

Because of CSU’s excellence in achieving its mission of education, innovative research, and statewide outreach, the university receives many top rankings and accolades of which Coloradans be proud.

Student research

30% of all of Colorado's science, math, engineering and technology majors pursue degrees at CSU.

  • Colorado State is consistently ranked in the prestigious top tier of the U.S. News and World Report's rankings of "America's Best Colleges and Universities," providing an affordable, world-class education to Colorado students.
  • Colorado State is consistently one of the top public universities in the United States in terms of educational quality and affordability according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.
  • U.S. News and World Report recently ranked CSU 36th on its scale of popular schools based on where students actually choose to go.
  • The Professional Veterinary Medicine program is ranked second in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and is ranked first in the country in obtaining federal research dollars.
  • BusinessWeek magazine ranked the Colorado State University College of Business as one of the top undergraduate business programs in the country for 2009, and Princeton Review names the College’s distance MBA program as one of the best in the nation for 2010.
  • The Occupational Therapy Department has been ranked among the top 10 master's programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and Peterson's Guide.
  • The College of Agricultural Sciences consistently ranks in the top 10 in the country in terms of awards, grants and contracts received.
  • Colorado State University's graduate engineering distance degrees offered through the Division of Continuing Education have been ranked a "Best Buy" by GetEducated.com.
  • The 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer was presented to CSU at COPENMIND for clean tech innovations in three different areas: an international clean cookstove project, two-stroke engine conversion kit and the next generation of biofuels production from algae.
  • The Corporation for National and Community Service named CSU to the 2008 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll "with distinction." The character of service is passed along to CSU’s students.
  • CSU’s Equine Sciences Program is widely regarded as the number one program in the nation both in size and quality of programs offered. Equine Sciences offers orthopedic, nutrition, farrier and reproduction programs.
  • CSU’s outreach and community partnerships have earned the moniker of a Carnegie Community Engagement university.
  • The Templeton Foundation named Colorado State among the nation's leading higher education institutions that encourage student character development.
  • For the first time, Colorado State University's theater program swept the awards at the annual Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in February 2009 in Moscow, Idaho. CSU students won every event that they entered for a total of five awards.
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