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| The internationally acclaimed Takács
Quartet based at the College of Music won a Grammy Award
in 2003 in the “Best Chamber Music Performance” category. |
Rankings
- CU-Boulder was ranked a "Best Buy" in the 2003 edition of The
Fiske Guide to Colleges, receiving a four-star rating
(out of five) for academics and five stars each for the social
life and quality of life ratings.
- CU-Boulder ranked 10th among public research universities,
and third among rising research universities in the public
sector, in a study called The Rise of American Research Universities:
Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era published in 1997.
- U.S. News and World Report ranked CU-Boulder 31st
among the nation's top 50 public national universities offering
doctoral programs in its 2003 America's Best Colleges issue.
The rankings were based on factors such as academic reputation,
student retention, faculty resources, alumni giving, graduation
rate and admissions selectivity.
- Three CU-Boulder graduate school specialty programs were
ranked in the top 10 in the nation, and eight doctoral departments
received high rankings in the 2003 U.S. News and World
Report graduate school rankings. The specialty programs
were atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics (2nd), physical
chemistry (7th) and environmental law (9th). The doctoral department
rankings were physics (20th), applied math (21st), chemistry
(22nd), biological sciences (27th), education (29th), engineering
and computer science (35th) and law (40th).
- Four CU-Boulder doctoral programs were ranked among the top
15 in the nation in 1995, the most recent ranking, by the National
Research Council: astrophysics and astronomy (12th), geography
(12th), biochemistry and molecular biology (12th) and aerospace
engineering (13th). Two others were in the top 25, psychology
(22nd) and civil engineering (24th). Eleven other programs
were ranked in the top 50.
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