<p>My son has been accepted at Boulder for the fall. He really likes the school. Does anyone know if the school has budget impacted programs like we're seeing in our home state California schools?</p>
<p>Probably a Colorado resident would know better than I, but my son is a freshman at Colorado this year and he is from California as well. I have not seen any problems with budget impacted programs, at least in my son’s area of engineering. He has had no problems getting the classes he needs. I remember them telling us when he was applying last year, that they would guarantee he would graduate in four years, but not sure if that is exactly true or not. In his major, he can actually get a masters in five years, taking concurrent classes in his senior year. Unlike California schools, where the average student can sometimes take over four years to graduate with a bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>I’m a Colorado resident with one CU grad (economics) and another a CU junior (biochemistry). Been directly involved with CU since 2006. I haven’t really seen any financial impact on the classes or instruction, and nether kid has ever said anything to that effect either. My son uses the Rec Center nearly every day to work out and again, he’s never commented on a degradation in equipment, etc. So from those vantage points, no impact.</p>
<p>The biggest difference we’ve seen over time is the rising cost of tuition and fees, which seems to go up 3-5% per year (don’t have the exact numbers, these are a guess) as our state legislature struggles to keep afloat, as most states do. But our current annual cost for in-state students, including living expenses, is slightly over $20,000 per year, and in this day and age, it’s honestly what I expected to pay when we started sending them here.</p>