1201 Fifth Street
Denver, Colo. 80204

Metropolitan State College of Denver is a public, four-year institution conferring bachelor degrees through its business, Professional Studies, and Letters, Arts and Sciences Schools. There are over 50 majors, 70 minors, and an individualized degree program. The individualized degree program gives students the opportunity to create a major or minor that fits their educational needs if they can't find an area of study, among the available majors and minors, to match their academic desires.

Metropolitan State College of Denver gives students the option of day, night and weekend courses at the Auraria campus and the Metro South and Metro North campuses. Metro South also offers online courses and is in the process of developing partnerships with community colleges to coordinate degree programs, delivering curriculum for a baccalaureate degree at community colleges.

Quick Facts

Metropolitan State College of Denver is one of the largest public baccalaureate colleges in the country, with steady increases in enrollment for nine of the past 10 years.

More students transfer to Metropolitan State College of Denver, out of all the colleges and universities in the state.

Almost 300,000 Colorado residents take classes for personal and career advancement at Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Metropolitan State has more than 61,000 alumni, of which 90 percent remain in Colorado after graduation, beginning careers in their respective fields of study or entering Graduate School.

Metropolitan State's criminal justice and Criminology programs are the only ones in the state and have graduates who were police chiefs in Colorado's largest cities.

The Metropolitan State College of Denver's Aviation and Aerospace Science program offers the only four-year degrees in the state and is the fifth largest program in the country. The program received a donation of $1.5 million in commercial aerospace software to prepare students for work in Colorado's aerospace industry, which is the second largest space economy in the United States.

In the past two years, four members of the faculty were named Fulbright Scholars, the school newspaper won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, a student was named Colorado Up-and-Coming Nonprofit Professional of the Year, and another won a national award for activism.

The school's athletic teams have won four championships, in women's soccer in 2004 and 2006, and the men's basketball in 2000 and 2002.

Metro state has the lowest tuition out of five of the state's largest institutions.

Metropolitan State distributes more than $85 million in scholarships, grants, loans, and work study to students each year.

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