University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Coordinates: 38°53′31.9632″N 104°47′58.14″W / 38.892212000°N 104.7994833°W / 38.892212000; -104.7994833

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a campus of the University of Colorado system, the state university system of Colorado.

As of Fall 2012, UCCS has 9,777 undergraduate and 1,460 graduate students, with 24% ethnic minority students.

In 2006, the U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings put the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science as ranking the fourth-best among public universities and the 16th best overall among bachelor and master's degree engineering schools.[citation needed]U.S. News ranked UCCS as the 32nd in regional universities in the West for the 2011 rankings. For public universities in the Master's Universities-West category it was ranked 6th. It has been ranked in the top ten on that list each year since 2002.

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