Boulder, Denver or University of Oregon
How would you sum each one up.
A visit helps but I can’t pick would love help.
What’s important to me may not be important to you. It’s a very personal choice, hopefully you have or can visit each.
What do you want to study ?
Where do you prefer to live–Colorado or in the Pacific Northwest ?
What are your stats?
Did you get into Honors at any?
Net cost at each?
What major?
Thank you guys. I’m just trying to get feedback on upsides of each school. Visits help but I still can’t tell. I like them all. Business major
From Southern California
UDenver, being private, would be more personal.
However if you got into Honors at either UO or CU, it’d offset the impersonal nature of the large public university.
Do you care about sports, either to practice yourself or to watch?
Denver is a larger city, with over 2.8 million people in the Denver Metropolitan area.
DU is on a light rail line, and lots of sports and entertainment are in downtown Denver. U of Denver is 8 miles south of Lower Downtown Denver, in a residential area of Denver. The Recreation Center at DU, pool and ice rink are really A plus. The reading and writing education may be somewhat better at DU than CU, as its more focused on humanities and social sciences, law and business, and international business.
CU is a science and engineering dominated school, although fine arts and music are very strong, too, with many associated government funded labs like NOAA, NIST, NCAR, in the area of physics and meteorology and space sciences.
Boulder is a college town of 100,000 with good hiking, biking, snowshoeing, and better night life than right around the campus of U of Denver. The buses around Boulder are fast and easy to use. Its a much bigger campus with many PhD programs, as well as the better known more highly ranked law school in the state.
Comparing the two undergrad business programs, maybe Daniels at DU is a bit better, for learning to read critically and write, but CU Leeds is rising in rank as are other humanities programs at CU such as History.
If you are leaning towards math related business/finance, CU might be a tad better for the math classes.
CU Boulder seems that it may have the better students, with higher test scores and more math background, compared to DU. CU has a very strong research oriented faculty, with many PhD programs.
DU is more undergraduate focused, with their graduate business and law programs well respected.