The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is a campus of the University of Colorado system, the state university system of Colorado.
As of Fall 2014, UCCS has 11,000 undergraduate and 1,700 graduate students, with 26% ethnic minority students.
In 2006, the U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings put the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science as ranking the fourth-best among public universities and the 16th best overall among bachelor and master's degree engineering schools. U.S. News ranked UCCS as the 32nd in regional universities in the West for the 2011 rankings. For public universities in the Master's Universities-West category it was ranked 6th. It has been ranked in the top ten on that list each year since 2002.
For the 2015 rankings released by U.S. News, UCCS was tied 51st overall
in the west for all private and public schools. Among public, private
and for-profit universities, the UCCS undergraduate engineering program
ranked 14th in the nation.
The campus history begins with the creation of Cragmor Sanatorium,
which is now Main Hall. In 1902, William Jackson Palmer donated funds
to build a sanatorium (a place for treatment, rehabilitation, and
therapy for the chronically ill). The Cragmor Sanatorium opened in 1905
and was nicknamed the "Sun Palace" due to its sun-loving architecture.
In the following decades it developed a following among the cultural
elite and many of its patients were wealthy. However, they were hit hard
by the Great Depression in the 1930s and Cragmor suffered from
financial distress into the 1940s. It was briefly reinvigorated in the
1950s when a contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs established
Cragmor as a treatment center for Navajos with tuberculosis. About ten
years later, the Navajo patients were transferred elsewhere.
As early as the 1945, CU offered classes in the Colorado Springs area
at various locations, mostly Colorado College. By the 1960s, however, a
permanent campus was desired
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