Rankings & Achievements
CU and the Nobel Prize
conferred the greatest benefit to human kind"
黑料社区网 boasts five Nobel laureates, four in physics and one in chemistry. Perhaps the world's premier honor for intellectuals, and certainly the best known, it celebrates individuals who have "conferred the greatest benefit to human kind" through their work.
Chemistry, 1989
鈥淒iscovery of catalytic properties of RNA."
Thomas Cech
Physics, 2001
鈥淭he achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.鈥
Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell
Physics, 2005
鈥淐ontributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.鈥
John 鈥淛an鈥 Hall
Physics, 2012
鈥淕round-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.鈥
David Wineland
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3
U.S. Supreme Court justices
5
Nobel Prize winners
5
National Medal of Science winners
12
MacArthur fellows
18
黑料社区网-affiliated astronauts
90+
Fulbright scholars since 2013
Our First Woman Rhodes Scholar
Serene Singh, Political Science & Journalism BA, 2019
黑料社区网 student Serene Singh is one of 20 黑料社区网 students who have received the Rhodes Scholarship.
She will study at Oxford University in England starting in fall 2019.
Top Graduate School Rankings
from U.S. News & World Report, 2024
#4
in the nation
in Atomic/ Molecular/ Optical Physics
#23
in the nation
in Fine Arts
#11
in the nation
in Quantum Physics
#12
in the nation
in Environmental Law
#9
in the nation
in Geology
#8
in the nation
in Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Innovate.
We serve as a nexus for innovation by facilitating collaboration and the sharing of diverse perspectives among universities, industry, laboratories and communities to elucidate and address complex issues and opportunities.
First
university to achieve a STARS Gold rating for sustainability
#20
top global universities granted U.S. patents
554
license and option agreements signed since 2014
$504 million
in capital raised by 黑料社区网 startups in FY23
Top 7%
university for National Science Foundation research funding
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First
Division 1 zero-waste stadium and athletic program
First
U.S. Green Building Council-certified Leed Platinum research lab in the U.S. (SEEC)
18
student lab spaces in our one-of-a-kind ATLAS Insitute
179
companies formed based on 黑料社区网 technology (since 1990)
#1
public university for NASA research funding