How do these two schools compare? What is different about them? What do they have in common? My S has acceptances to both and we can only realistically visit one. I would love to hear from people who know both schools. Thanks!
There is better skiing in the Wasatch!
It really depends on what he/she is going into. Colorado is a fantastic school for certain things but Utah is a great school for other things. Utah is located in Salt Lake which is actually where I am located but I will probably be attending Colorado.
@LuisaL Boulder is a small town with a lot of music, art and entertainment, and a bus ride to Eldora ski resort and not too far to the best ski resorts in Colorado, (Vail, Arapaho Basin, Breckenridge etc ). U of Colorado BOULDER has a well ranked music conservatory, a well ranked teachers college, a media/journalism college, well ranked engineering, in particular aerospace , well ranked physics, geology, chemistry and biology, an environmental design program and humanities and social sciences. Architectural engineering is not the same as a school of architecture, but more focused on lighting design and other engineering aspects of building design. The faculty include a Pultzer prize winning historian, Professor Elizabeth Fenn, and the renowned JILA physics lab, which studies the Bose Einstein condensate. Weather, climate research and atmospheric science is top in the world with NOAA and NCAR labs, nearby. NIST is also nearby, a physics standards laboratory for the federal government where physics, electrical engineering, chemistry, and chemical engineering students work. LASP is a space science lab associated with CU Boulder. Leeds School of Business is in Boulder and offers accounting and finance for undergraduates. The CU Law School is in Boulder. Google has moved a medium sized office to downtown Boulder which may eventually lead the CU computer science department to beef up, right now its weaker than mechanical, aerospace or chemical engineering. Oracle and Level 1 are in Broomfield and will recruit at CU Boulder. Ball Aerospace recruits CU students as does Lockheed Martin. Engineering college offers an applied math major which is quick to finish for some students who want to work on quantitative biology, or fluid dynamics or econometrics or computational physics. Some Boulder students get research projects down at the Med school but its a long bus ride down there, about 40 miles south.
U of Colorado nursing college is not in Boulder. Its down near the CU medical school in Denver/Aurora.
Salt Lake City is a much bigger city. There is a growing high tech job base, that will recruit Utah students. Close to world class skiing. U of Utah does not offer the same caliber music conservatory as Boulder, but it does have a College of Fine Arts including Music majors. Utah offers a school of mines and metallurgy, two majors NOT offered by CU Boulder, a school of nursing, and a school of architecture and a well known computer gaming department focused on software for the gaming industry. College of engineering offers a materials science undergraduate major not offered by CU Boulder. It has similar Arts and Sciences, and Engineering to Boulder, and a College of Education. The school may be a little more conservative than the Boulder campus. Utah offers an undergraduate degree in social work and a school of social work. Business college is in Salt Lake. The Medical school is in Salt Lake. Center for Quantitative Biology.