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Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Colorado State University is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. It was founded in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College and assumed its current name in 1957. In 2024, enrollment was approximately 34,000 students, including resident and non-resident instruction students. The university has approximately 1,500 faculty in 8 colleges and 55 academic departments.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
1350
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
135000
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
126818
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
107451

Location

Fort Collins, CO, 80523-0100

40.574805, -105.080732

Accreditation

Higher Learning Commission

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