Current and previous list of Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) Peer Institutions.

New list ratified by CDHE November 2011. Includes all AAU publics.

  • University of Arizona 
  • University of California - Berkeley 
  • University of California - Davis 
  • University of California - Irvine 
  • University of California - Los Angeles 
  • University of California - San Diego 
  • University of California - Santa Barbara 
  • University of Colorado Boulder 
  • University of Florida 
  • Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • University of Illinois - Urbana 
  • Indiana University 
  • Iowa State University 
  • University of Iowa 
  • University of Kansas 
  • University of Maryland - College Park 
  • University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 
  • Michigan State University 
  • University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 
  • University of Missouri - Columbia 
  • State University of New York - Buffalo 
  • State University of New York - Stony Brook 
  • University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 
  • Ohio State University 
  • University of Oregon 
  • Pennsylvania State University 
  • University of Pittsburgh 
  • Purdue University 
  • Rutgers, State University of New Jersey 
  • University of Texas - Austin 
  • Texas A&M University 
  • University of Virginia 
  • University of Washington 
  • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Indiana University - Bloomington
  • Iowa State University
  • Texas A&M University
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • University of California - Berkeley
  • University of California - Santa Barbara
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Kansas Main Campus
  • University of Maryland - College Park
  • University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • University of Oregon

  • 5/6/2011 - Nebraska-Lincoln is no longer a member of the AAU. This was not one of CDHE's criteria in selecting peers, however.  In addition, the situations that led to exclusion of Rutgers and Penn State from the peer list have now changed.  Because CDHE will take some time to change Boulder's peer list, if indeed it does at all, we will leave this list unmodified.
  • For use by CDHE and NCHEMS in "peer gap analysis" as described in September 6, 2007 Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) Agenda. 
  • All schools on this list are members of the AAU, the American Association of Universities. None have medical schools. Public AAU's without medical schools that are excluded include
    • Rutgers - Financial reporting includes branch campuses, appropriately excluded
    • Penn State - IPEDS financial reports are under FASB reporting guidelines, not GASB like other publics; appropriately excluded.
    • Purdue - Don't know why excluded