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unitid 126818 · Fort Collins, CO · public 4-year · city (midsize)

Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Public university in Fort Collins, Colorado, US

founded
1870
enrollment 2023
36,856
predominant degree
Bachelor's
Campus of Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Kyle Thayer · CC BY 2.5

Colorado State University is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. It was founded in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College and assumed its current name in 1957. In 2024, enrollment was approximately 34,000 students, including resident and non-resident instruction students. The university has approximately 1,500 faculty in 8 colleges and 55 academic departments. wikipedia rev 1362078629 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

89%

64th pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

25,538

92nd pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

21%

undergrads on Pell grants

19th pctl among public 4-years

completion

67%

finish within 150% time

85th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$31,642

91st pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$21,279

after aid, aided students

93rd pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$60,543

after entry, Title IV students

75th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$20,000

54th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $13,259 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    17%
  • 30-48k
    13%
  • 48-75k
    16%
  • 75-110k
    16%
  • 110k+
    38%
Median family income
$63,464
First-generation students
24%
In-state tuition & fees
$13,373

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.0× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Business Administration, Management and Operations.679$78,287$20,967
Biology, General.330$58,902$23,009
Business Administration, Management and Operations.285$123,668—
Psychology, General.284$51,931$23,147
Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences Business Services.257——
Zoology/Animal Biology.234$49,193$25,000
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.217$55,064$22,000
Mechanical Engineering.201$89,087$26,184
Computer and Information Sciences, General.200$121,497$23,250
Construction Engineering Technology/Technician.165$100,451$25,000
Veterinary Medicine.148$114,498—
Sociology.145$56,681$23,000

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 2,553 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (942) · basketball player (613) · university teacher (157) · American football player (90) · politician (86) · mathematician (36) · statistician (27) · ecologist (26)

The portrait wall

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Also recorded: Wang Junxia, Amanda Peterson.

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362078629), CC BY-SA 4.0.