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.
UNC is designated by the Colorado Legislature as the primary institution for undergraduate and graduate teacher education in the state of Colorado.
DownBeat Magazine has rated UNC’s University Orchestra the top university orchestra in the United States repeatedly for more than 10 years.
Our graduating nursing students regularly score in the top 10 percent on the national licensing exam for registered nurses.
Our James A. Michener Library is home to the bulk of the UNC alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s writing and publishing legacy.
One-third of the Colorado Teacher of the Year award winners are University of Northern Colorado alumni.
According to a 2007 study, spending by the university, our employees and our students pumps nearly $350 million into the Colorado economy.
We prepare more public school music, theater and art teachers than any college or university in the region.
The Jazz Studies program has won more than 100 DownBeat Magazine awards in the last 30 years.
For seven successive years, graduating business students have scored in the top 10 percent on nationwide standardized exit exams.
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 in the recovery of cancer treatment-related symptoms.
UNC has 19 NCAA Division I sports primarily in the Big Sky Athletic Conference.

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