DU Student Profile
Founded
- 1864, well before Colorado became a state
Setting
- A tree-shaded 125-acre campus in a quiet residential neighborhood just minutes from downtown Denver and the Rocky Mountains
- Undergraduate 5,285
- Graduate 5,768
Faculty
- 575 full-time appointed faculty members
Student organizations
With wireless access, students stay connected anywhere on campus.
- Approximately 100, including academic honor societies, fraternities, and sororities, professional and service organizations
For more information, see clubs and activities.
Student academic assistance
The Learning Effectiveness Program (LEP) is a fee-based program that provides individualized assistance for people with learning disabilities and ADHD.
The Disability Services Program handles basic accommodations for people with physical, learning or any other disability that falls under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Technology
- Every entering undergraduate and most graduate students are required to bring a laptop to campus.
- Nearly all classrooms have laptop connections.
- Residence halls, the student center and libraries are outfitted with data ports.
- Many buildings and outdoor areas run a wireless network.
- For more information, see campus technology.
Athletics and recreation
Aside from the sports that remain traditional to college campuses throughout the nation, DU fosters many distinctive and often unusual club sports and student organizations.
- NCAA Division I, 17 varsity sports
- Men's sports: basketball, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis
- Women's sports: basketball, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball
- 30 club sports and the Alpine Club
- 22 intramural sports
Safety
- Safe, residential neighborhood setting
- 36-officer campus safety department
- SafeRide program provides cross-campus van escort service
- For more information, see campus safety.