Colorado Springs homes for sale offer residents numerous options for excellent education at in-state colleges and universities. Forbes Magazine ranked two Colorado Springs colleges in the nation’s top 50 in their annual study of 650 top undergraduate schools.
Located in north Colorado Springs real estate, the United States Air Force Academy ranked No. 10. Colorado College, set on a 137-year-old campus north of Downtown Colorado Springs real estate, ranked No. 31 of thousands of colleges and universities in the running. A synopsis of the Forbes report was published in the Denver Business Journal on August 3, 2011.
The US Air Force Academy is situated near a variety of popular subdivisions and communities. A search for Colorado Springs homes east of campus includes real estate in Gleneagle, Briargate, Stone Crossing, Pine Creek, Wolf Ranch, Cordera, Flying Horse, and Black Forest. South of the Academy are Colorado Springs CO homes on large lots in Peregrine and Discovery, Mountain Shadows, Rockrimmon, and Pinecliff. Further into the north and northeast foothills are homes in small towns of Monument, Palmer Lake, and Woodmoor. Colorado College is tucked into a variety of older convenient and affordable neighborhoods.
The USAFA prepares cadets for careers in the Air Force, while developing enduring leadership competencies through military development. Over 500 academic courses are available to students in addition to strong athletic and intramural programs and extracurricular activities.
Established in 1874, Colorado College began with talent from traditional New England schools two years before Colorado became a state. Since 1970, the liberal arts and science school has successfully employed a Block Plan comprised of eight 3.5 week intensives. Each is the equivalent of four semester hours. In another ranking of Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Colorado College ranked No. 26 of 266 in the division for national liberal arts colleges.
Other Colorado schools listed in the Forbes rankings include: Colorado School of Mines in Golden (No. 122), the University of Denver (No. 187), and the University of Colorado Boulder (No. 217). The list continues with Colorado State University in Fort Collins (No. 329), Fort Lewis College in Durango (No. 457), the University of Colorado Denver (No. 495), as well as Western State College of Colorado in Gunnison (No. 456), Colorado Mesa University (No. 537), and Metropolitan State College of Denver (No. 607).
Thousands of colleges and universities were evaluated by the Forbes research staff. They compared post-graduate success, student satisfaction, debt, four-year graduation rates, and competitiveness awards.
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