University of Colorado Boulder Rankings by Salary Score

I transferred to CU Boulder from several schools (my dad did not understand how college worked and I finally paid for college myself and moved to CO then transferred to CU). So my path is not traditional but it is filled with a lot of wisdom in the form of comparison! I loved loved loved CU. Yes it was hard, but with work and dedication I easily had some of the top grades even outside of business. You have to actually try at CU and sometimes try hard. And most of the teachers were great. Most of the students... Read More were also great - a few lazy idiots. But most of the business students were admirable and smart. Yes the campus is beautiful. I found things to do on campus to be lacking but I did not care because I was off campus and older than other students. I thought that it was wonderful to get a liberal perspective after being at conservative schools prior and the business school did a nice job of marrying both liberal and conservative. I had one finance 101 teacher who encouraged cheating, and that struck me as odd. I had one bad experience with a business ethics professor who was UNETHICAL. And i had several bad experiences with the career center. I even caught one recruiter lying about a job she had- I turned her into the director of the career center only for the director to be angry at me! I think they were in cahoots and I spoiled her little plan. It is not ok to have third party recruiters and I caught her having 3rd party recruiters!!! It took me a long time to figure out why she would be mad at me! So I did not trust their office and never went back. But everyone else was truly amazing. I highly recommend CU. Most people fail out because it is HARD to get an A because of grading with curves. Most of my classes were curved, making it super hard to get an A. That is why most people fail out of CU because they dont realize how much work it takes to get an A. Regarding the classes. They are all easy IF you take notes and study. It was the happiest time of my life. I am so glad I chose to go there. I recommend it over all the other schools I attended except Yale. I also found CU’s network to be strong and loyal but it did not help me when I moved to the south with my husband. In fact southerners were anti CU. I was not considered one of them until I earned a masters degree and graduated 2nd in my class from a southern university. Only then was i given the time of day here. So point being their name goes far but it was not useful in the south. So unless you are planning to move to AL (which I do not recommend for the tornadoes alone) then I say - go there, work your ass off, and graduate! Go Buffs! If you do not want to work hard, don’t go. If you need lots of help, get a tutor from day 1. This is a research university like any large state school. The teachers are not there to tutor you. If you don’t like studying and are just an average student, do not go to CU. It has a reputation of being s party school from days old, but the truth of that is long gone.

DO NOT attend CU Boulder for you Masters degree in English and Literature. I cannot emphasize this enough. My experience follows as such: The professors and faculty are nice enough but there is so much institutional pressure on them to get their works published for a slim chance of tenure that you, as a graduate student take back, back, back seat to their priorities. Most of the lectures I have had have been a total mess not only for me but others in my cohort. Feedback is blinkered at best and the lessons... Read More are in a complete disarray. If you are seeking a TA position well… good luck, they offer one every semester so you’ll have to fight someone for it. You enter a graduate program expecting a more focused outlook on the career you’re trying to establish and the person you’re trying to become within that. This program does not care for that and just wants you to spend your nonexistent money so they can do this all over again to another cohort. Take your debt and your time anywhere else…please.