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We’re thrilled to welcome our new Buffs to campus this fall. Here are three steps to take this summer to prepare for the fall semester.

Complete the Online Experience

This virtual orientation provides new students with information on health and wellness, academic advising, course registration and more. Complete this program before registering for classes.

Online Experience

Take Your Placement Assessments

Placement assessments help ensure new students enroll in the appropriate levels of classes their first semester. Discover which readiness tests are required for you.

Placement Assesments

Start Registering for
Classes

After completing the Online Experience and placement assessments, new first-year students can select an enrollment window. Learn what to do to prepare for class registration.

First-Year Registration

Campus Highlights

CU Boulder quantum leaders Greg Rieker (Mechanical Engineering), Jun Ye (JILA, Physics, CUbit), Massimo Ruzzene (Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation), Keith Molenaar (Dean, Engineering & Applied Science) and Scott Diddams (Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering) cut the ribbon to the new lab

Investment and Momentum Highlighted at Quantum Engineering Lab Ribbon Cutting

Leeds School of Business MBA Continues Rise in U.S. News Rankings

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CU Boulder Today News

Man wearing a lab coat and gloves makes adjustments inside a large metal chamber

Space tractor beams may not be the stuff of sci-fi for long

One day, small spacecraft could fly around Earth, using devices called electron beams to remove hulking, derelict spacecraft from orbit without ever having to touch. It may sound like science fiction, but aerospace engineers from CU Boulder say they could be ready to test the idea in space in just five to 10 years.