CU Denver Review

Bad School No fraternity and sorority and unfriendly people and staff not a good school

Graduated from the business school. Learned a ton. Go CU Denver.

Overpriced and overrated. The financial aid office could do better. Messed up my finances over the last semester now they're on a witch hunt to mess up my credit

This is a great school with a great business program that have at one point worked within the industry or currently are in the business world. The only thing that sucks about the school is their advising. Their counselors there just suck, they are complete idiots to the students needs and don't take the time with you to explain things.

On my portal they had said they had mailed me a letter about their decision on my application. I waited 4 weeks they didn't send a email or the letter . I had to call the admissions office to get my decision. I hope it was some sort of mistake but I shouldn't have to call them to get my admission decision.

Excellent! I've been taking classes here for about 5 semesters now, both online and campus, and have nothing but good things to say! (I've previously taken online and on campus classes at a community college in PA as well as FRCC) It's easily accessible through public transport and the campus is very nice looking. The teachers I've had have been nothing short of wonderful and seem to be well versed and experienced in their respective fields. And when I transitioned from a Computer Science major to an Animation major, advising staff was very helpful. The only annoying thing I've come across is that the animation classes are in the building slightly off campus and is right between the light rail stations. It's a little bit of a walk but I guess I could use the exercise anyway. Other than that, it's an excellent school!

Despite what I've read lately, I had a wonderful experience getting my bachelor's degree in audio engineering at CU Denver, and I think the downtown campus is beautiful.

Well, I don't see my review on here from a while back, but I'm more than happy to reiterate my horrible experiences here. The school is expensive and the education you receive is mediocre at best. UCD is perfectly content to let students slip through the cracks.

It's very clear no one there cares about the students so long as the check clears. The professors are rude, arrogant, and love to tell illicit your interpretation of something is wrong while they give you a D because you have the audacity to think like them.

Financial aid office and academic advisements terrible, so expect to become entangled in that. I also informed them of issues such as depression and grief, things I'd been reeling from, and they could care less.

I was told right to my face by a professor since I wanted to be a horror writer (my major was creative writing, boy was that a mistake) I might as well leave the class since they encourage 'literary fiction' and not 'genre fiction' otherwise known as the vast majority of books that occupy shelfspace. God forbid your students try to write something fun and unpretentious, right?

I thoroughly wish I could have taken all that time and money back and would warn anyone away from this school.

Great school, great teachers, and lots of opportunities

The CU Denver Department of Engineering was the best thing that ever happened to me. My current position is MEP manager and at LeeKennedy in Boston, MA.

I will never regret getting my BSME at CUDenver. Thank you to the College of Engineering

The staff(management) is beyond stupid and unprofessional if I can give them less than one star I will

I am an international student, don't came here you would waste your time and money. Firstly, you would not met great people, I mean the top student in this school which is not helpful in the future career, the connection all around the world through alumni---don't think about it. I am pretty confused whether all the school in US are so ignorant and rude to students until I saw the local student's comment. Also pretty confused why I have to pay like 10 dollar to get the transcript of undergraduate. Everything costly, the school are not like a public school, the price of each credit are high. You would have to wait for and schedule everything and wait like 3 to 5 business days. Efficentless. I don't think Professor really care what you are thinking and your feeling. You would really feel sad as you came to Auraria Campus. I don't know why. The advisor in this school are to some extent helpful. The student are really hard to engage in an efficient and better interaction with their professor. It is kinds of joke. The ranking is gradually slide down from 100 to 200, and recently I really mad about the ranking nearly 500. It is at the very end of Top 500. And dean, the chancellor and the staff should really feel shame for their ignorant of dereliction of duty. And lastly, I think all my class are in the afternoon which is kinds of embarrassing, when you understand that the professor only came before class or often out of office. The university professor earn 110000 annually, which is even higher than DU. Why? Worth it? Where is my money? Why school build lots of new building which to my extent not useful for me. Shame, my money (International student)support almost 60 percent of either the city of denver or the state of colorado. Whether it is facility of transportation or the livelihood. I feel really sad to tell you maybe CU Denver manifest the spirit of the City of Denver, cold, not open minded, not friendly with the international student. You get a F, CU Denver.

This is the worst university I have ever attended. The financial staff is horrible. This is not an institution of education it is an industry that clings to every penny it gets. The campus is small and horrible. The resources are little to none. There are no notable alumni that have done anything worthwhile. The university punishes you if you transfer out for something better. I would recommend any other college or even community college over this absurdity that claims to be an institution of higher learning. No matter what please do not attend this school. It will be a waste of your time and money!

Don t go here. This school does not care about you, your money or how hard you work. They will treat you badly, they will steal from you and they will try to make it so you fail or have a harder time.
They treat veterans horribly despite their proclaimed most veteran friendly school. Their ethics should really be called into question. On a multitude of different levels. Their curriculum needs to be re-evaluated or have more oversight. There is something very shady about this school and how they operate.

They never sent me a bill or any information that I owed money. I took a class here 5 years ago for continuing education and pretty sure I would have paid for it when I signed up--that's the way these kinds of things usually work... Well here it is 5 years later, and I get a bill from a COLLECTION AGENCY!!
That is so lame UCD.

Great education and college experience and the professors are there for you.

Great University experience, all the professors I ve had have been wonderful, parking can be difficult but that s downtown Denver for you, not the fault of the school. All in all, I recommend CU-Denver!

"It's okay." Their engineering school is lacking. Whatever awesomeness that you'll get from being in the city is dulled by the lack of University support for engineering. There really are some top notch professors, but that doesn't mean much when our department is the red-headed step child of UCD, and the top notch professors have to fight each other over the left over scraps. Did I mention that UCD engineering tuition costs extra? A lot of money was just spent building new buildings for generic degrees and I guess they forgot to update the archaic labs. Go to Boulder, Mines, or DU.

I have lived at, studied at, and worked for CU Denver since May 2008. As a student, I was admitted to the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies (MEIS) Program and was impressed with their audio engineering and music business coursework; however, I was not impressed with advising at the time and it severely messed up my progress over the years. I worked on my degree completely backwards and had to take some classes by professors in my General Education credits that seemed like a complete waste of time and money.

Erin Hackle, in the MEIS department, completely discouraged me from my dreams because she always chose her favorites to be apart of the lead ensembles. I sang in the lower choirs for almost 4 years and "gave up my passion" because of her policies and attitude. Needless to say, it helped me find what I truly love to do now...which is web development and not music. Nonetheless, professors need to focus on encouraging every student to succeed and not just the reputation of a singing group that is/was finally getting national attention. It was rather selfish of her to not see the bigger picture at the time.

The administration of the university has changed over the years and I have to say, I am excited for Chancellor Horrell to make some LARGE organizational changes. I hope to see the university become more centralized around auditing the student's experience in regards to advising, scholarship, and Bursar practices. Those are the areas where students are confused and "thrown through hoops" quite often.

I believe there are small pockets of amazing people and departments, but we need to be evaluating these units and applying their practice to all of the university. This is very clear here in the reviews - where you see polarized experiences.

Overall, I am pleased with what I know the university is trying to do for the students now. I still feel left out from my dreams in terms of being a student at CU Denver, but hopefully that will change in the future. I hope too see more focus on the traditional student experience (on-campus student housing, student engagement, food court expansion, and athletics focus) to bring students, faculty, staff, and administration together. There has been too much of an acceptance that CU Denver is a commuter school. This definition DOES NOT improve the image of the University and if anything, lets students know that they can expect no sort of traditional experience. Although this may be a selling point to a small group of prospects...it's not what students want.

I hope administration moves away from "siloed" accountability and practice. Without unity, we have nothing.

Some professors are wonderful, however most professors are clearly on staff not for their teaching abilities but for their prestige or research abilities. Really felt like the school didn't care about the students, as long as you paid your tuition and they were able to get you out the door with any degree they didn't care beyond that.

DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL!!!!

All the other bad reviews are 100% accurate.

Calling it a school is actually complementing this garbage institution of lower-learning. I went to this place for a year. I have been to 3 other colleges on the east coast. The education from this place is comparable to my high school. The professors are rude, arrogant, do not care about students, and will make things up that a simple google search can disprove, but when you call them out on their lie they give no response and cancel class early - this seriously happened to me, the professor said afterward that we are only allowed to use the information that he supplies for the class, which for some reason only focused on intersectionality and Marxism. Financial aid office is screwed up and made getting a refund I was supposed to get for something that I never should have been billed for in the first place difficult and sent the $200 refund in multiple checks, had to tell them the refund was incomplete and they owe me multiple times. Cannot describe how bad the professors are - the worst I have ever experienced in my life. So unprofessional.

DO NOT GO HERE!!!!

Great experience at this school. Learnt a lot and met many smart people!

It's alright, professor Gilroy is my favorite but the tuition climbs each year.

BSEE 1984 Best move I ever made RIP Dr Simmons , Dr Reno

There are plenty of invisible and discriminatory policies that AHEC, Auraria Higher Education Center, doles out. Literature needs a permit to distribute, displaying art constitutes as "signage," and any sort of First Amendment action is heavily regulated and controlled. Any event needs a sponsor/you need to be a cog, and individuals are expected to join a larger organization and conform.

Administration is terrible.
Campus police doesn't do anything.
Porkbarreling is rampant.

The University of Colorado Denver is a branch of the University of Colorado, an international university, operating in the United States of America. The university contains a medical school.

The University of Denver is located in the city of Denver, capital of the state of Colorado in the United States of America, and it is considered one of the most important universities in Colorado, because it contains the only medical school in Denver, in addition to being located in the city center of Denver.

This school makes me regret everyday that I went back for a second degree, and I'm only a month into my first semester. It could be the fact that you have to pay to park every time you come to class, if you're someone like me who has to drive because I work before and after classes. Or it could be the fact the school is so focused on how much money they could get from me that they denied me in state tuition, even after I have been here for over a year now, and am a Colorado resident. They said it's because my mother consigned a loan with me that I took out for the sole purpose of paying tuition. I was also initially accepted into the wrong program, and had to go through advisors for me to get approved and on the right program. One professor I have is amazing, and really cares about his students. The other two are definitely lacking. I am unable to make office hours for a certain professor and had been emailing him because I was struggling with the homework, and at one point he told me that he "couldn't keep doing this", even though I had been stuck on the same 2 questions for easily over 4 hours, even. after extensive googling, trial and error, and consulting my book. It is a pretty campus and I love the location in Denver but if given the chance I would not have even wasted my time applying.

If I could give this place six stars, I wouldn't do it. But I think five stars is perfectly adequate.

A great commuter school. It has a very centralized campus and some really great class offerings!

I graduated from CU Denver, and I might as well have been given tissue paper rather than a degree. CU Denver seems more interested in pandering to trendy social causes than delivering a worthwhile education. It charged me thousands of dollars, and I only had one class that was even remotely valuable in the years I attended. The worst part is they have the gall to hound you for donations years later. CU spends all its timing scheming of ways to swindle people out of their money. What utter rubbish.

You should be ashamed to put a murderer under your notable alumni

Great place for our grand daughter to get a great education.

It is the year 2016, and this Institution of Higher Learning cannot figure out how to have half-decent functional internet on campus. Plot twist... Assignments have to be submitted online.

If you are a working adult, this school is not for you. There is no evening classes and hardly any online classes. The time slots for classes are 2 days a week either mon and wed or tues thurs, the latest class available is 3pm and that just does not work. going to have to find a different school thats not for people without a job.

I think it's an amazing school with amazing teachers. Tuition could be better, but it has a great community

Wish I would ve been able to properly graduate, unfortunately UCD hasn t realized Colorado weather conditions change rapidly and could ruin/cancel an outdoor ceremony. Have graduation inside!

Absolutely ridiculous. I am so heartbroken to have been robbed of that experience.

Went to school here for electrical engineering but got an internship with the civil engineering department. The internship ended up being a joke ran by a man who was very petty. When I tried to talk to the head of the civil engineering department he ended up being equally as petty. It soured my idea of what an engineer should be. Now I am 100k in debt and I despise engineering. They are also very good at losing paperwork at the bursar's office and financial aid office. The one good thing was working for the school in the machine shop. I learned a lot from the people in that area and they seemed to be the only people with any sense in the whole building. They also never had the supplies needed for the labs. A summary of a day in class at UCD was a quick class where you really didn't learn anything and you would go home and teach yourself. There really was no point in going to class. If one did graduate they may use 5% of what was taught in school in their career. With the abundant access to data in today's society, college is pretty much out of date and irrelevant at this point.

This is the worst university I have ever attended. The financial staff is horrible. This is not an institution of education it is an industry that clings to every penny it gets. The campus is small and horrible. The resources are little to none. There are no notable alumni that have done anything worthwhile. The university punishes you if you transfer out for something better. I would recommend any other college or even community college over this absurdity that claims to be an institution of higher learning. No matter what please do not attend this school. It will be a waste of your time and money!

Nice school with good instructors. You'll get a good education here, but you don't have all the amenities of a 4-year school and the students are way different.

The path to success is paved with black and gold.

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The in-state tuition represented is quite misleading. It is almost double the amount being advertised. Close to 9000/ semester.

Small classrooms, great Aviation program. Exactly what I needed.

The most Incompetent scholarship and financial aid office that I have ever dealt with.

I pay for tuition out of pocket and tuition is rather expensive. I took a class over the summer online. There are so many students but not enough professors causing some professors to be neglectful and overwhelmed . Of course the summer classes go by rather quickly. We have four months of work to complete in a couple of months and that is to be expected. No problem there. I had some questions and emailed the professor and never received a response! Needless to say, my class had our first exam within the first two weeks and seemed like the exam was conveniently scheduled after the drop deadline for a full refund. Within that two week period we had no graded assignments or any indication as to how we were performing. The majority of the class failed the exam. I didn t want to risk my gpa so I dropped. I tried to appeal my tuition and that was denied of course. Showed them proof of the non responsiveness and I still had to pay. I decided not to go for Fall semester due to what happened and now I m back. Disappointed even more now because the same non responsive professor is teaching the same class and is available ( I believe we know why at this point) and there is no availability for the other professors for the same class. It s really frustrating. CU cares about money only.

The university is located in the heart of the city with access to all the great restaurants in Denver. The campus can have several loiterers but has city charm. Say hi to Dave near the light-rail and buy a Denver Voice to support the local community.

I was there in 1975 I had brain surgery and the doctors were awesome to have me here and alive today.im going back to visit the hospital to show the staff that the surgeon that operated on me was a big success.

Horrible communication within the advising offices. Takes them so much time to process and/or accomplish a simple task.

Came from a different university and this school is set up in the most ridiculous way possible. The teacher student interactions are a joke and you absolutely do not get your money's worth. (At least in the science department)

This institution does not care about their students, they care about their money.

If I could have chosen another place for my education, I would have. First and foremost, why in the world is there a MILLION councilors for one person? It does not make one single sense to me. Not to mention, this institution does not care about the mental state or health of students.

THE PARKING SUCKS. I've paid for parking meters and still had to pay for tickets. This place is like a mafia or a thug. Also, you will be run around in a marathon since no one truly understand what they're supposed to do. Anyway, horrid organization.

As a former disillusioned and bitter Colorado School of Mines graduate student of chemistry (1981-1985, GPA 3.52), I cannot begin to offer enough praise to the University of Colorado's Chemistry Department. They were very supportive of my graduate research and educational success while attending their fine institution. My graduate advisor, Dr. Douglas Dykes Ph.D., was so knowledgeable of his field, that to this day I remain in awe of him. He, and the other chemistry professors of my graduate research team, treated me with respect, dignity, and ethically throughout my challenging program. To any prospective undergraduate or graduate student of chemistry, I say this university offers the very best for a rich and rewarding academic experience. Samuel R. Allen, MS, CPW

If I could have this school negative starts I would. So many families flew in from all over the world for the Graduation and due to not having a back up plan they had to cancel the graduation because of a storm.

I seriously feel like I m being ripped off as a student here. I genuinely hate this campus and the lack of classes offered. Will not be donating a penny upon graduation. Also a massive liberal circlejerk that never ends in ever classroom.

Have attended both Boulder and Denver, but I feel CU Denver has edged out CU Boulder, in curriculum and experiences, finally!

Don't go here unless you'd like to have your life ruined on a daily basis. The staff doesn't care and being nice and patient with them won't even work. Hiring incompetent people to do important jobs (advising, financials) is why you get one star CU Denver!

Some how, even though I called to make sure I was unenrolled (decided to drop since the Master courses I was taking were below the academic level of a Bachelor course from Michigan State and I wasn't learning) and I did make sure I was very much unenrolled with the person I spoke to... Back in 2012... I now somehow owe $3000 for a class that idiot forgot to unenroll me from. No one at CU will help or even cares. No one will answer my questions as to how this even happened or how a $300 course became $3000. No, no grants or loans were accepted. Basically, I unenrolled. CU didn't do it right. Now I owe $3000 for their mistake. Story of my life right now... My daughter refuses to go there because of this and I'm thinking of moving out of state.

Long story short? The education is way sub par there, you get a better education from community college. And they will steal money from you with no explanation and no recourse for assistance.

My family came in from overseas to see my graduation. I was not able to walk because of weather conditions and improper planning.

Worked here for a while a long time ago. Not bad but not great. Arrogant and ignorant coworkers/research assistants but cool professor (Wendol Furman) leading the research

my ex gf goes here and she won t take me back but all my friends go here so i ll give it another star

I love that you can attend CCD and transfer to UCD seamlessly. The student aid was very giving as well as the amenities this campus has, endless! If you crave to have real world experience as well as not be trapped in the college town scenario like most then I highly reccomend UCD! Being that it is a state collage that holds campuses up & down the front range is incredible. Post secondary school should be available to all regardless of background and living situation!

This school is the worst university in the state. The programs are horrible the campus amenities awful. After attending this school for one year I transferred out to a better school. The tuition department claimed that I was still registered for classes even when I was living in another state. I withdrew from all courses well before the deadline and this university sent me to collections. They want me to pay for classes I never took and credits I never received. When I contacted the president of the school he understood my case and said the problem would be handled. The problem was never fixed. This is not an institution that supports the education of young people it is an industry that clings to very cent that it can get its hands on. The head of the tuition department is corrupt. It s no wonder the retention rate at this university is so low. After growing up in Colorado I would recommend CSU or DU over this school. If you want a a successful life and a fun college career do NOT attend this university!

I really enjoy my college years at University of Colorado Denver as an international student. I study Biology and couldn't be more satisfied with all the Biology faculty and stuff..without a single exception. Beautiful campus in the downtown Denver area. Easy access to the beautiful mountains. Great internship and collaboration opportunities with the Anschutz Medical Campus. Highly recommended!!!

It's a great school, great programs and affordable! As long as you are not shy to ask for help, they will give you the resources that you need. It's also in downtown so it's super convenient to go anywhere, a lot of activities. A lot of options for food. (The Market on Larimer street has the best hot cocoa - as long as Ernie and Jose makes it!)