Graduate Catalog 2022-2023

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University of Northern Colorado Points of Pride

  • UNC is a recipient of the prestigious Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Preparation from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
  • Our Monfort College of Business is the first and only business school to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the Office of the President of the United States.
  • The arts are part of the UNC Student Experience: Our School of Music is home to 25 musical ensembles and our School of Theatre Arts and Dance stages seven mainstage productions and more than 30 student productions each year as well as being home to the Little Theater of the Rockies, the oldest professional summer stock theatre west of the Mississippi River.
  • The Colorado Legislature designated UNC as the primary institution for undergraduate and graduate teacher education in the state and alumni K-12 educators currently serve every county in Colorado.
  • UNC has the oldest Gender Studies program in Colorado, which was originally founded as a women's studies program in 1974 and attracted students to learn about the development and culture of gender, sexuality and inequality both past and present.
  • DownBeat Magazine has rated UNC's University Orchestra the top university orchestra in the United States repeatedly for more than 10 years (2021).
  • Our BS in Nursing program is one of the best in Colorado and ranked #76 in the nation, with a 95-100% passage rate on the national licensing exam for registered nurses.
  • Each year, students host the UNC International Film Series, the longest-running student film program in Colorado.
  • UNC has the only online American Sign Language Interpretation Bachelor of Arts program in the nation that is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education.
  • Our Monfort College of Business is ranked #1 in the world for experimental Accounting Information Systems (AIS) research and #9 in the world for all other AIS research, where accounting, systems and analytics intersect (BYU 2021 global rankings of 660 universities' accounting research quality).
  • Our Jazz Studies program has won more than 150 DownBeat Magazine awards in the last 30 years.
  • 26 UNC graduates have appeared in 67 different Broadway productions — a record unmatched by any other BA Musical Theatre program in the country.
  • The university's Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute is the only comprehensive cancer rehabilitation facility of its kind, providing individualized prescriptive exercise and dietary intervention for cancer treatment-related symptoms.
  • Our James A. Michener Library is home to the bulk of the alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s writing and publishing legacy.
  • Our student athletes succeed in the classroom and in competition: earning the highest GPA in the NCAA Division 1 Big Sky Athletic Conference for the 18th consecutive semesters—a cumulative GPA of 3.26—and winning six Big Sky volleyball tournament championships, a women's soccer championship and a women's basketball championship, which included an NCAA berth. Go Bears!