Editing Colorado College (section)

==Academics==
[[File:Russell T Tutt Science Center.jpg|thumb|right|Russell T. Tutt Science Center at Colorado College]]
Colorado College offers 42 majors and more than 30 minors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Majors & Minors |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/majors/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> In addition to its undergraduate programs, the college offers two [[master's degree]] programs in teaching.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Departments & Programs |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/dept/ |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> The college uses a block plan wherein students take only one class at a time, for a period of 3 and a half weeks per class.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Block Plan |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/blockplan/ |access-date=2024-06-01 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> In 2023, the institution yielded a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. The college's Charles L. Tutt Library holds over 400 thousand physical volumes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Tutt Library |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/library/about/index.html |access-date=2024-05-31 |publisher=Colorado College}}</ref> Its most popular undergraduate majors, by 2021 graduates, were:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=colorado+college&s=all&id=126678#programs |website=nces.ed.gov |publisher=U.S. Dept of Education |title=Colorado College |access-date=February 3, 2023}}</ref>
::Economics (43)
::Political Science & Government (38)
::Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (28)
::Multi-/Interdisciplinary Studies (25)
::Computer & Information Sciences (23)
::Psychology (23)
::Cell/Cellular & Molecular Biology (22)

===Admissions===
[[File:William H. Gill as President of Colorado College.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Major general [[William H. Gill]] served as President of Colorado College 1947-1955 and during his tenure completed the reorganization of the college, an honor system was introduced together with self-government for the student body. He also established [[ROTC]] program and remodeled the athletic department, which led to the college winning the NCAA hockey championship during his administration.<ref name="ColoradoCollege">{{cite web | url = https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/2014/11/we-will-remember-them-colorado-colleges-wartime-history/ | accessdate = April 12, 2017 | work = sites.coloradocollege.edu | title = We Will Remember Them" Colorado College's Wartime History | publisher = Colorado College Bulletin Websites}}</ref>.]]
Colorado College is considered a "most selective school" by ''U.S. News & World Report''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=2016 |title=Colorado College |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=June 25, 2014 |archive-date=July 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717080807/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the class of 2026, Colorado College received a record number of applications, 11,026, and admitted just above eleven percent of those who applied. Those accepted who identified themselves as students of color numbered twenty-five percent. The Class of 2026 is geographically diverse, representing 15 countries and 47 states, with 24 percent who hail from both the Northeast and the West; 17 percent from Colorado; 16 percent from the Midwest; and 15 percent from the South. <ref>{{cite web|year=2022|title=Welcome, Graduating Class of 2026|url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2022/welcome,-class-of-2026.html#.Y_qfcC2ZN-U}}</ref>

===Rankings===
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 111
| USNWR_LA = 29
| Wamo_LA = 86
| THE_WSJ = 111
}}

In its 2025 edition, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranks Colorado College as tied for 29th best liberal arts college in the nation and 3rd most innovative national liberal arts colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US News and World Report-- Colorado College Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/colorado-college-1347/overall-rankings}}</ref> The most innovative schools are those "making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities".<ref>{{Cite magazine |year=2021 |title=Most Innovative Schools – National Liberal Arts Colleges |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725062615/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/innovative |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[Kiplinger's Personal Finance]]'' places Colorado College 16th in its 2017 ranking of best value liberal arts colleges in the United States.<ref name= "autogenerated1">{{Cite magazine |date=December 2017 |title=Kiplinger's Best College Values: College Rankings, 2017 |url=http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/index.php?table=lib_arts&state_code%5B%5D=ALL&id%5B%5D=none |magazine=Kiplinger's Personal Finance |access-date=August 4, 2013 |archive-date=May 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518115307/http://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-kiplinger-s-best-values-in-private-colleges/index.php?table=lib_arts&state_code%5B%5D=ALL&id%5B%5D=none |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2025, ''[[Forbes]]'' rated it 111th overall in "America's Top Colleges", which ranked 500 national universities, liberal arts colleges and service academies. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Colorado College Ranking and Profile |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=January 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115183736/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/colorado-college/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

CC is one of six colleges in the western US included in the guidebook ''[[Hidden Ivies|The Hidden Ivies]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Greene|first=Howard|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44509154|title=The hidden ivies : thirty colleges of excellence|date=2000|publisher=Cliff Street Books|isbn=0-06-095362-4|edition=|location=New York|pages=|oclc=44509154|access-date=January 21, 2021|archive-date=January 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115193802/https://www.worldcat.org/title/44509154|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Requirements===
Students must satisfactorily complete 32 credits to graduate in addition to specifying a major of study and fulfilling those requirements. The college offers a unique alternative for students who wish to design their own major. However, standardized cross-cutting requirements still apply, though these criteria are fairly broad compared to those at comparable colleges.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/requirements/ |title=Requirements • Colorado College<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=October 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003025722/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/academics/curriculum/requirements/ |archive-date=October 3, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>