Type: Public
State: Colorado
Website: www.colostate.edu

Quick Overview:
Good library and computer facilities, great food outside campus, campus is safe and publications are common.

The word from: the Students

Between the vast array of majors available and the strong science programs there is a whole lot to get excited about at Colorado State University (CSU). Even with a large student body, every student can get his own individual attention when he needs it.
Professors are very much willing to help and very approachable, they also like knowing their students name, making the general environment a bit more familiar than the regular university. If however students feel the need for an even more personalized experience there is also the Honors Program, although it requires a little extra effort but the benefits are great in comparison.
Classes keep improving each year but introductory ones seem to be getting too large on size unfortunately for students.

There's not much time spent indoors at CSU, there is a lot of activities to be done outside and students know that. Among the immense variety of things to do there's biking, hiking, visiting the Horsetooth Reservoir, Poudre Canyon, camping, skiing, snowboarding, the list goes on. Some students can even skip classes to enjoy the outdoors activities. Regarding the few indoors activities that still exist, drinking and partying are the most usual ones. But even with this selection of "distractions", students still find a very good balance between schoolwork and all the rest. The town has a very community feeling to it and it's a very nice place to hang out with stores, restaurants and bars. It's no surprise that people don't go home much on weekends with this amount of things to do in and out of campus.

CSU has a student body typically composed of white, middle-class, athletic and tipically Coloradoan. In general people are very laid-back. Of course atypical students still exist and everyone still finds a niche to fit in. The large student body provides a large pool of cliques and groups for everyone but it's size and amount of people can be overwhelming for freshmen. Minorities seem to fit very well into the community since it's so friendly and open to others.