Welcome to CU Boulder Graduate School

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Regent Administrative Center

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Welcome to the University of Colorado Boulder and the Regent Building, home of the Graduate School and other key administrative offices essential to starting your graduate school journey. This tour will help you discover how CU Boulder's highly ranked academic programs, beautiful campus and location at the foot of the Rocky Mountains make this an ideal place to gain a graduate education.

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School of Education

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Welcome to the School of Education. We offer cutting-edge, engaging teacher preparation, innovative undergraduate degrees, and Colorado's top-ranked graduate education programs. Our campus home offers interactive classrooms and small class sizes to create a close-knit community of learners and colleagues. The walls feature community-created art, including mosaic sculptures of scholars and activists who have helped expand opportunities for CU Boulder students from diverse backgrounds. Doctoral student workspaces are next to the faculty offices and research centers to promote opportunities for collaboration and learning. And our many bright, community spaces nurture lasting relationships between all members of our community.

Colorado Law

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The Wolf Law Building, located on the southern end of campus, is home to the University of Colorado Law School. Established in 1892, it is one of the top public law schools in the United States. Colorado Law offers research centers, student-run journals, dual degrees and certificates focused on entrepreneurship, natural resources and environmental law, technology law and policy, American Indian law, and juvenile and family law. It also offers career development services, assisting students in finding jobs during and after law school. Colorado Law's graduates, whose state bar passage rate is consistently high, are leaders in their profession and committed to public interest work.

Leeds School of Business

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We've now arrived at the Leeds School of Business. Nationally ranked, Leeds was established in 1906 and is one of the top public business schools in the United States. Leeds offers a rich curriculum with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and social impact while building relationships in the business community. Graduate programs include a Full-Time MBA, MBAs for working professionals, and a wide range of master's and doctoral programs taught by globally recognized faculty.

College of Engineering and Applied Science

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The Engineering Center is one of five buildings making up the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. It features classrooms, computing facilities, faculty offices, and research laboratories. Highly ranked nationally and globally, the college offers 14 undergraduate majors and more than 35 graduate programs. Students are involved in hands-on design, high-tech research, and opportunities to put engineering theory into practice. The Engineering Center is home to the BOLD Center, a nationally recognized program promoting a diverse environment in engineering, as well as the nation's largest geotechnical centrifuge, low-turbulence wind tunnels, spectrometers, electron and other microscopes, clean rooms, 3D printers, a structural analysis facility, and two cafes.

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

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Introducing the next stop is Dr. Fran Bagenal, a prominent planetary research scientist at LASP. LASP, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, is housed in three buildings in the CU Boulder East Campus Research Park. LASP helps educate the next generation of space professionals by employing undergraduate and graduate students to work on all aspects of space exploration, including scientific research, mission operations, data systems, engineering, and administration.

Aerospace Engineering

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The Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building is a dedicated home for world-class learning and research. Completed in 2019, it contains unique laboratory facilities, collaborative research environments, and immersive educational opportunities. CU Boulder is the place for aerospace. It is the top university recipient of NASA research awards and has produced 18 astronauts. Our students and faculty are pushing the limits of aeronautics and astronautics research, designing next generation uncrewed aircraft, expanding the possibilities of remote sensing, and building space instruments and satellites for orbit around Earth and beyond.

Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community

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As part of the College of Arts and Sciences, students in the natural sciences learn from leading faculty in the life sciences, physical sciences, and the earth and environmental sciences. Arts and sciences faculty members include Nobel laureates, MacArthur 'genius grant' winners, National Medal of Science winners, Fulbright faculty, and American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows. The college's natural sciences programs are nationally and internationally ranked in undergraduate and graduate education, bringing world-class research and scholarship to our students, both in and out of the classroom.

College of Media, Communication & Information

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The College of Media, Communication and Information, known as CMCI, offers six undergraduate major programs and multiple minor, certificate and graduate-level programs. Students and faculty work together across departments to investigate social issues and solve problems. Classes are often project-based and several programs offer credit for internships, giving students real-world experience and a marketable portfolio. The college has classrooms and creative spaces throughout campus, including podcasting booths, an immersive media lab and a speaking lab. CMCI is also home to Radio1190, Colorado's largest college radio station; a student broadcast studio where NewsTeam Boulder and Buff Sports Live are filmed; and The Bold student media outlet.

Norlin Library

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Norlin Library, named after the university's most famous president George Norlin, is one of six libraries on campus. Our research collections include over 4.5 million volumes and 2.5 million e-resources, and are the largest in the Rocky Mountain region. Norlin is home to the humanities, social sciences and life sciences collections, as well as the Rare and Distinctive Collections. Our other libraries include Business, Law, Earth Sciences, Music and Engineering, Math and Physics. Each location provides students a variety of collaborative work and study spaces, IT support centers and Norlin even offers a local coffee shop.

Theatre & Dance

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The University Theatre Building, located on the Norlin Quad of Main Campus, was built in 1904 and formerly housed the university library. Today it is home to the department of Theatre and Dance and is active with rehearsal spaces, performance venues, classrooms and labs. Theatre and Dance engages students in the creation, performance and analysis of theatre and dance arts. Faculty members have faceted professional experience in the performing arts and believe in the myriad of ways that performance can interrogate, celebrate and transform ourselves, communities, and world. Each semester a wide range of productions and performances are offered and each summer CU Boulder hosts the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, performed in the historic Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre as well as the University Theatre.

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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Our next stop is the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences located on main campus. CIRES was established in 1967 as a partnership between NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the University of Colorado Boulder, and is the largest and one of the oldest of NOAA's cooperative institutes nationwide. Here undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral scientists work with CIRES fellows and other accomplished researchers in their areas of expertise, including weather and climate, changes at Earth's poles, air quality and atmospheric chemistry, water resources, and solid Earth sciences.

Visual Arts Complex

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We've now arrived at the Visual Arts Complex, one of the largest art facilities in the country. The VAC has a two-building design that is connected by a third-floor breezeway and pedestrian mall. The west building serves as a studio, and the east building houses the CU Art Museum. The museum has a permanent collection of more than 5,000 works of art and includes two permanent collection galleries and two changing exhibition galleries. Public and student art is featured in the buildings.

ATLAS Institute

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Inside this next stop, you'll find students exploring ideas through radical creativity and invention. The ATLAS Institute and its programs support cross-disciplinary interactions aimed at transforming ideas into reality through research, experimentation and critical thinking. Special features include a 150-seat auditorium, a performance and recording space, the Blow Things Up Lab hackerspace, and a production studio. One of ATLAS's most well-known programs is the Creative Technology & Design Program which offers a major, minor and graduate degrees. Within the Roser ATLAS Center, you'll also find the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts, which is among the top film programs in the nation.

College of Music

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Since 1920, the College of Music has offered a range of programs for undergraduates and graduates, integrating advanced musical training with professionally oriented experiences and the resources of a leading research university. Active as award-winning professional performers, published scholars and composers, and dedicated pedagogues, music faculty are committed to helping students develop their talents and succeed in their musical endeavors. The college's Imig Music Building houses recital halls, large ensemble rehearsal rooms, a choral room, faculty studios, classrooms, offices, practice rooms, a recording studio and more. Students have access to a music library and the American Music Research Center; plus dedicated space for a wellness program and the Entrepreneurship Center for Music.

JILA

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Welcome to JILA, one of the nation's leading research institutes in the physical sciences. JILA was founded in 1962 as a joint institute of CU Boulder and NIST, the National Institute of Standards & Technology. Here students work with JILA fellows, including Nobel Laureates and MacArthur Fellows, JILA research associates, NIST staff members and leading scientists from around the globe. If you are interested in physics research, including quantum information science and technology, atomic and molecular physics, astrophysics, laser physics, biophysics, chemical physics, and nanoscience and precision measurement; we hope you will explore all that we have to offer.

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