University of Colorado Denver - Academics and Research

Academics and Research

University of Colorado Denver is one of the largest universities in Colorado with more than 27,000 students and awarding more than 3,400 degrees in a year. It has the largest graduate business school and graduate school of education in Colorado, and its School of Medicine is the only medical school in the state. In 2010, almost $385 million in sponsored research funding was awarded to University of Colorado Denver researchers. The vast majority of this research is dedicated to health sciences at the Anschutz Medical Campus. In 2011, more than $179,000,000 was awarded by the National Institutes of Health to UC Denver researchers. The core laboratories in the research complex, at the Anschutz Medical Campus, include mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, a 900 mega-hertz nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, DNA array and peptide protein chemistry. The university is considered by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to have "very high research activity" with a basic classification of Research Universities (RU/VH) (very high research activity).