The Colorado State University Campus
As a Distance MBA student, you are never obligated to come to campus, but we find many of our students enjoy the opportunity. If you plan on coming to campus, whether just to attend a class in person, or come for commence activities, the information below and the listed Web sites are a good place to start planning your trip.
The College of Business is part of Colorado State University, a land-grant university founded in 1870 with an enrollment of more than 25,000 students. CSU has a tradition of research excellence, being cited by both the Carnegie Commission and the Association of Research Libraries as one of the top 100 research universities in the United States. Colorado State graduates have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, become leaders of industry and education, carry on important scholarly work, and much more.
We invite you to learn more about Colorado State University and our home town, Fort Collins, Colorado, by visiting the Web sites listed below.
Explore Colorado State University
http://welcome.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=about
CSU Facts at a Glance – 284 pages (5.7 MB)
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/OBIA/pdf/fbk/0607/fctbk0607.pdf
Admissions Page
http://www.biz.colostate.edu/distanceMBA/applicationProcess/
Maps & Campus Tour
http://www.map.colostate.edu/
http://www.tour.colostate.edu/
Fort Collins offers something for everyone - friendly people, the services and facilities of a growing city, and accessibility to the best of the great outdoors. You'll find everything you need - several shopping malls, hundreds of restaurants, six movie complexes, a regional cultural center, natural areas, and miles of bike trails - right here in town.
- Outside Magazine named Fort Collins one of 10 "New American Dream Towns."
- A&E Television featured Fort Collins as one of America’s 10 most livable cities. The Arts & Entertainment Television Network chose Fort Collins for its combination of friendliness, natural beauty, outdoor activity, low crime, thriving economy, and historic charm.
- Fort Collins was one of four cities recommended as "The Best Places to be Young" by Your Future magazine (1995). Criteria used in selection included high job growth, low unemployment, good weather, affordable housing, and "stunning natural environment."
- Reader's Digest (1997) ranked Fort Collins as the 3rd best city in the country "to raise a family" based on absence of crime, low rate of drug/alcohol abuse, first-rate health care, clean environment, and affordable cost of living.
- Money Magazine ranked Fort Collins first in Best Places to Live in the western United States among small cities (population of 100,000 to 249,999) in 2007. The Money rankings were weighted toward five priorities: low crime, clean air and water, good public schools, low cost of living, and low property taxes.
Easily accessible by car, bus, or air, Fort Collins is located 65 miles north of Denver, Colorado's capital. An hourly shuttle service provides convenient and economical transportation to and from Denver International Airport. Within the city, the TransFort bus system offers free transportation for full-time Colorado State students. Fort Collins also has more than 53 miles of well-maintained bike trails and lanes, making bike riding a popular form of transportation. --From CSU Admissions Page
Links to Fort Collins information:
http://www.colostate.edu/features/americas-best-place-to-live.aspx
http://www.ftcollins.com/
http://www.ci.fort-collins.co.us/
http://www.larimer.org/compass/
http://www.fcchamber.org/Sub_snapshot.asp
http://www.fcchamber.org/EX.asp
http://www.fortcollins.com/