<p>Boulder is the best of the UCs. Mines has a great reputation, but has no ABET accredited ME. Of the CSUs, Ft. Collins is the best. The feel of each campus/town is fairly different and each has it’s own teaching style. Sorry, don’t know about transfer friendliness. My guess the easiest to transfer to would be CSU. It’s the only one to grant WUE which is a reasonable gauge of how impacted (or lack there of) a school is. Good luck.</p>