Select Rankings
- SmartAsset: #1 Best Value Colleges in Colorado (#13 nationally)
- PayScale: #7 in ROI and #22 in alumni earnings
- Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education: #1 for Public Schools in the West with highest salaries 10 years out
- Wall Street Journal: #2 nationally for combining scholarly research with classroom instruction
- QS Global Ranking: #1 in Mineral Mining Engineering
- US News & World Report: #5 in Petroleum and #33 in Top Public Schools
- Forbes America’s Top Colleges: #25 in the West; #29 among publics
- #36 in High School Counselor Rankings; #44 in Undergraduate Engineering Programs; #55 in Graduate Engineering Programs; #82 in National Universities
