University Of Colorado Denver

The University of Colorado Denver is a public research university in the U.S. state of Colorado. It is part of the University of Colorado system. It is the largest research institution in Colorado.

• The university has two campuses, one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus, and the other at the Anschutz Medical Campus located nearly 10 miles away in neighboring Aurora.
• More than 140 areas of study are available in the university, including masters in the fields of business, engineering, and education. The university is comprised of 13 schools and colleges.
• University of Colorado Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus features in a number of rankings in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools. The university ranked 5th among American medical schools for primary care in 2010, the 27th among medical schools for research.
• The graduate school was ranked 68th in the biological sciences in 2010. The school of Nursing is also highly ranked, at 15th in the nation in 2007. The nurse practitioner programs are also ranked at 8th, 5th and 3rd in Adult, Family and Pediatric Nursing.
• The Business School is the 5th Best Graduate School for Physician – Executives (2007), according to Modern Healthcare.  The Princeton Review included CU Denver | Anschutz in its Best Western Colleges, Best in the West in 2008.