The University of Colorado Denver was founded in 1912 as an extension of CU Boulder, became independent in 1973, merged with the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 2004, and separated from it again under different chancellors in 2014. The campus occupies a third of the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, shared with Metropolitan State University of Denver and the Community College of Denver. Fall 2025 enrollment was 13,853, of which 9,771 were undergraduates. It is classified R1 and has eight schools and colleges, including Arts and Media, Business, Public Affairs, and Liberal Arts and Sciences. According to Wikipedia its graduate programs award more master's degrees than any other Colorado institution. Athletic teams are club-level only, and the mascot is the Lynx. Alumni include Deanne Criswell, the former FEMA administrator, and Michael Hancock, a former Denver mayor. The university now uses the domain cudenver.edu rather than ucdenver.edu.
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CU Denver admits students to eight schools and colleges in downtown Denver.
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1201 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80204, United States, Colorado
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