University of Colorado Boulder Rankings by Salary Score

I'm a parent who attended CU and made the mistake of sending one of my kids to the school (2021). Over the years it's become a very poorly managed, third-rate educational institution. Professors don't teach the courses; they instead use third rate hack $50K a year Teaching Assistants who often times don't even have their PhD's in the topic they're overseeing (teaching wouldn't be the appropriate term) - this is how they save money on your over-inflated tuition dime. Most of the courses are taught by Zoom call... Read More (essentially a poor man's online course), and their administration has no control over the functioning of the University - they're a completely unorganized train wreck. The Teaching Assistants don't have to have a spine and speak to the tuition paying students, after all, a Zoom call that is poorly executed or was recorded 4 years ago should be sufficient. They hide behind these ridiculous processes like pathetic cowards, not educators. They don't have any accountability to the students and rarely if ever respond when a student requests help - these types of processes remove all accountability from the make-believe educators and pave the way for the worst teaching skill sets available. Most of them don't even report to the University, they work from home full-time so they're not even at the University to teach an in-person course. So why would a parent pay $18K+ a semester to have their kid take poorly developed online classes from their dorm room? It's a fool's investment. I have two other kids who recently graduated from CSU and UNC, both schools provided a far superior educational experience, as well as the more traditional overall experience most of us parents remember during our college days. I had no choice but to transfer my kid to CSU where she is thriving and will be graduating in 2025. CU sells the school on what we as parents remember from our experiences 30+ years ago, but those days are in the history books. That school, and those experiences do not exist any longer; it's an embarrassment. The school has even contracted with an online sports book (PointsBet). They receive over $1M upfront plus $30 for each new referral...i.e., students. They are selling out the entire student body for profit, as if the highly over-inflated tuition and the tax exemptions which come from being an "educational institution" aren't enough. I'm sure every parent wants their student to learn how to gamble while attending college; pathetic. Send your kids to get a real education at one of the many other Universities in the State if in-state tuition is important, don't waste your time with CU. It's upsetting to see what has happened to a school where I had many good memories, but like so many things in our world today...buyer beware. The school has reduced itself to nothing more than lipstick on a pig.

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.