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Colorado State University - Fort Collins

Basic Information

Type Public
Geographical Reach National
Location Fort Collins, CO
Population 400,000
Website https://colostate.edu/
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Demographics

Total Undergraduates 25,148
Men / Women 45% / 55%
White 66%
Hispanic 15%
Asian 4%
Mixed 4%
Black 3%
International 2%
Native American 1%
From State 69%
From Region 4%

Academics

Undergraduate Degrees
Business & Economics 25%
Humanities & Social Sciences 24%
Life & Natural Sciences 22%
Engineering 9%
Arts 5%
Computer Science 5%
Health Sciences 4%
Physical Sciences & Math 3%
Professional 3%
Education 2%

Financial

In-State Tuition & Fees $13,373
Out-of-State Tuition & Fees $34,783
Est. In-State Cost $17,299
Est. Out-of-State Cost $44,995
10-Year ROI $183,000
ROI Percentile 74th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 86%
4-Year Graduation Rate 47%
6-Year Graduation Rate 67%
Transfer-Out Rate 16%

Weather

Comfortable Days 130 (95% 😎) very dry
Sunshine Hours 3,107 (91% ☀️)
Days Without Precipitation 278 (86%)

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes
Acceptance Rate 82%
Yield (Unbound) 16%
Regular Decision Jan 1

Research

Research Level R1
Expenditure
Life & Natural Sciences $352M #57
Engineering, Computing & Math $70M #90
Humanities & Social Sciences $13M #115
Graduate Degrees
Engineering, Computing & Math 81 #72
Life & Natural Sciences 286 #95
Humanities & Social Sciences 62 #226

Honors College

Name University Honors Program
Students 1,800 (7%)

Standardized Tests

Test Scores

Test Policy optional

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Schools & Majors

⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Agricultural Sciences 409 38% / 62% 1% $54,186 93%
Animal Sciences 80 — 16% / 84% 2% $56,056 51 89%
Applied Horticulture/Horticulture Operations 19 — 63% / 37% 0% $58,189 57 92%
Brewing Science 10 +1 90% / 10% 0% $59,176 59 —
Environmental Science 17 +1 53% / 47% 0% $48,025 28 90%
Equestrian/Equine Studies 46 +4 2% / 98% 0% $47,210 26 94%
Forest Sciences — — — — $53,278 43 —
Forestry 28 +2 71% / 29% 0% $53,875 45 100%
Horticultural Science 52 +1 44% / 56% 0% $41,193 12 94%
Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management 7 — 43% / 57% 14% $41,193 12 94%
Soil Science 13 +1 54% / 46% 0% $55,660 50 89%
Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations 31 +2 61% / 39% 0% $62,394 66 96%
Agricultural Economics 12 +3 50% / 50% 0% $62,394 66 96%
Restaurant/Food Services Management 40 — 22% / 78% 0% $53,160 43 98%
Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy 31 +2 45% / 55% 0% $65,688 72 95%
Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management 2 — 100% / 0% 0% $65,688 72 95%
Agricultural Teacher Education 3 +4 0% / 100% 0% $52,671 41 —
Landscape Architecture 18 — 56% / 44% 0% $66,377 73 90%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Business 735 63% / 37% 2% $78,287 98%
Business Administration 735 +4 63% / 37% 2% $78,287 86 98%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Health and Human Sciences 683 23% / 77% 1% $56,766 94%
Nutrition Sciences 33 — 18% / 82% 9% $58,337 57 100%
Environmental Health 8 — 38% / 62% 0% $82,890 90 95%
Exercise Science 198 +1 37% / 63% 0% $55,064 49 95%
Apparel and Textile Marketing Management 81 +1 26% / 74% 1% $55,279 49 86%
Business Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences 206 +1 6% / 94% 0% $60,674 62 —
Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Management 53 +1 40% / 60% 0% $52,324 40 97%
Family and Consumer Sciences 7 +1 14% / 86% 0% $49,752 33 100%
Social Work 69 +1 19% / 81% 0% $51,722 39 94%
Early Childhood Education 23 — 4% / 96% 0% $48,788 30 92%
Fire Services Administration 5 — 100% / 0% 20% $98,338 97 100%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Liberal Arts 1,111 39% / 61% 2% $54,076 92%
Natural Sciences 6 — 0% / 100% 0% $51,695 39 —
Economics 76 +12 70% / 30% 7% $69,679 78 93%
Anthropology 51 +3 31% / 69% 0% $52,109 40 84%
Communication Studies 124 +1 53% / 47% 2% $54,306 46 97%
English 75 +2 33% / 67% 4% $47,320 26 90%
Ethnic Studies 6 +3 17% / 83% 0% $50,914 36 —
Foreign Languages 12 +22 42% / 58% 0% $60,473 62 93%
Geography 8 +1 62% / 38% 0% $59,112 59 —
History 75 +14 60% / 40% 0% $52,465 41 84%
Intercultural and International Studies 28 +10 43% / 57% 0% $52,921 42 88%
Journalism 116 +5 33% / 67% 3% $55,367 49 94%
Philosophy 16 +2 62% / 38% 0% $40,325 10 92%
Political Science 111 +13 49% / 51% 1% $61,493 64 90%
Sociology 125 +17 31% / 69% 0% $56,681 53 95%
Women's Studies 1 +2 0% / 100% 0% $53,572 44 —
General Education 61 +2 26% / 74% 2% $49,230 31 87%
Dance 5 +1 0% / 100% 0% $38,166 8 —
Interior Architecture 50 — 12% / 88% 2% $60,656 62 100%
Music 30 — 47% / 53% 0% $53,174 43 90%
Studio Art 111 +5 22% / 78% 1% $44,547 19 93%
Theatre 24 +3 33% / 67% 0% $33,861 4 100%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
College of Natural Sciences 1,463 39% / 61% 3% $66,017 93%
Computer Science 215 +4 76% / 24% 4% $121,497 99 99%
Data Science 16 — 69% / 31% 19% $85,440 91 —
Information Science/Studies 3 — 67% / 33% 0% $100,588 97 91%
Chemistry 30 +1 37% / 63% 10% $80,180 88 90%
Geosciences 27 — 63% / 37% 4% $75,612 84 97%
Mathematics 40 +7 60% / 40% 5% $74,186 83 88%
Physics 11 — 82% / 18% 9% $75,294 84 90%
Statistics 17 +2 65% / 35% 12% $84,352 91 —
Biochemistry 33 +1 48% / 52% 3% $62,741 66 92%
Biology 200 +6 32% / 68% 2% $58,902 58 91%
Biomedical Sciences 161 +1 25% / 75% 2% $58,902 58 91%
Environmental Biology 92 — 47% / 53% 1% $52,979 42 100%
Microbiology 5 — 20% / 80% 0% $64,977 71 97%
Neuroscience 50 +1 30% / 70% 0% $39,749 9 97%
Wildlife Biology 106 +2 53% / 47% 1% $49,193 31 89%
Zoology 128 +3 14% / 86% 3% $49,193 31 89%
Psychology 329 +5 21% / 79% 1% $51,931 39 94%
⇅ Trends Degrees Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employment
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering 591 78% / 22% 6% $94,437 96%
Biomedical Engineering 40 — 52% / 48% 2% $98,033 97 95%
Chemical Engineering 57 +8 63% / 37% 5% $97,269 96 88%
Civil Engineering 66 — 71% / 29% 6% $85,902 91 96%
Computer Engineering 22 +1 95% / 5% 5% $112,299 99 100%
Electrical Engineering 47 +3 89% / 11% 28% $107,989 98 94%
Engineering Science 1 — 0% / 100% 0% $94,158 95 —
Environmental Engineering 42 — 45% / 55% 12% $77,901 86 100%
Mechanical Engineering 174 +29 87% / 13% 4% $89,087 93 96%
Construction Management 142 +2 87% / 13% 1% $100,451 97 99%

Rankings

Engineering

Farming with Numbers Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Field Tested
Playing House Civil Engineering
The Deep Bench
Hugging Trees with Calculus Environmental Engineering
Carbon Crushers
WD-40 & Duct Tape Mechanical Engineering & Robotics
The Kinetic Energy Cartel

Physical Sciences & Math

Breaking Bad Chemistry
Agri-Chem & Geo
Rocks and Whales Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Ocean Explorers
No Words Allowed Pure Mathematics
Sigma Grindset

Life & Natural Sciences

Pre-Med Reject Waiting Room Biology
Mitosis Mode
Doomsday Prepping with Data Environmental Science
Ecosystem Engineers
Farmers, Cowboys, and Tree Huggers Plant & Agricultural Systems
Field & Forest
Puppies Over People Zoology & Veterinary Sciences
We Can Pet It AND Fix Its Spleen

Business & Economics

Pivot Tables & Missing Pallets Business Analytics
Supply Chain Bottlenecks
It's Basic Supply and Demand, Bro Economics
The Aggie-Econ & Applied Regressions Guild

Education

Surviving PTA Karens General Education
The PTA

Professional

The Hard Hat Caste Construction
Permit-Ready