University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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| Motto | ΛΑΜΨΑΤΩ ΤΟ ΦΏΣ ΥΜΏΝ (Greek) |
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Motto in English
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Let Your Light Shine |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1965 |
| Endowment | US $1.5 billion (systemwide) |
| Chancellor | Pamela Shockley-Zalabak |
| President | Bruce D. Benson |
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Academic staff
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601 |
| Students | 12,885 |
| Undergraduates | 11,132 |
| Postgraduates | 1,753 |
| Location | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States |
| Campus | Urban, 520 acres (210 ha) |
| Colors | Black & Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II – Rocky Mountain |
| Nickname | Mountain Lions |
| Mascot | Clyde |
| Website | www |
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Coordinates: 38°53′31.9632″N 104°47′58.14″W / 38.892212000°N 104.7994833°W
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.
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