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Top 10 Reasons to Attend CU

Track record of successful job placement in academia, industry, and government

Prepare for the right work environment for you by considering all of your options. CU-Boulder has unique relationships with a number of industry partners and federal labs as well as academic institutions. In a Fall 2005 survey, 85 percent of graduate students indicated that their expected position was directly related to their respective graduate degrees.

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The Anthropology department at CU Boulder is fantastic, and I came here to work with its excellent professors and graduate students, as well as be part of a major research university. I conducted fieldwork in Bangalore, India in the summer of 2009, where I interviewed Indian nurses and their families. — Rachel Fleming
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I enjoy working with graduate students, and I was delighted to receive the Outstanding Graduate Advising Faculty Award. I am an archaeologist and my work focuses on the northern part of the prehistoric American Southwest, especially on the Chaco and post-Chaco eras (A.D. 900-1300). — Catherine Cameron
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Why Graduate Education?

Ensuring Our Quality of Life

Graduate education is a key factor in countering the decline of America's competitiveness in the global marketplace. It fosters the capacity to discover, create, and market new products, services, and knowledge.

"Only by providing leading-edge human capital and knowledge capital can America continue to maintain a high standard of living—including providing national security—for its citizens. -Norman Augustine, lead author for the National Academy of Sciences

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The Graduate School serves the community of graduate students, faculty, and staff at CU-Boulder, one of the nation's premier comprehensive research universities. We offer guidance on a wide array of academic, social, and financial issues, and can assist in navigating the often complex world of graduate education.

Serving as an umbrella organization since 1892, the Graduate School currently oversees 100 graduate and professional programs. We work to guarantee a standard of quality and cohesion across all disciplines, ensuring the continuing integrity and value of a CU-Boulder graduate degree. The Graduate School also helps make possible the many connections between the campus and outside constituencies, in the state, the nation, and the world.

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NREL-CU Joint Energy Institute Coming to Boulder campus

The University of Colorado will partner with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to launch a joint institute on the Boulder campus, beginning this fall. The institute will blend disciplines — including business, engineering and law — to explore renewable-energy production and policies.