University of Northern Colorado
School info
3.6
Overall Quality
Reputation
3.4
Food
3.2
Clubs
3.5
Facilities
4
Internet
2.9
Location
2.9
Opportunities
3.5
Safety
3.7
Social
3.4
Happiness
3.8
Basic Information
Location
- Greeley, CO
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Public university
- Established: April 1, 1889; 135 years ago (1889-04-01)
- Founder: The University of Northern Colorado was founded through a legislative act, so it does not have a specific individual or group of founders in the traditional sense. However, the initiative was driven by the residents of Greeley and the state legislature of Colorado. Therefore, the answer would be: Colorado state legislature, Greeley residents
Academic information
Degree Courses
- Over 100 undergraduate and 113 graduate degree programs
Key Area
- Biomedical and cell/molecular research
- Ecology and evolutionary biology research
- Biology pedagogy research
- STEM education and professional development
- Climate change resilience and emerging technologies
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: 7,917
- Undergraduates: 5,645
- Postgraduates: 2,272
- Academic Staff: 686
Notable Alumni
- Chesley Sullenberger
- James A. Michener
- Connie Willis
- Tom Tancredo
- Carlotta Walls LaNier
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Good reviews
Overall 5
This school is an open campus. It is a really nice and pretty school to go to. Overall I’m glad I got to choose this college to go to.
Overall 4.8
UNC's amazing and Greeley has a LOT to offer. Anyone who disagrees, clearly hasn't been around Greeley enough. Greeley is 1 hour or less away from bigger cities and has many hidden gems that most students don't know about. There are restaurants everywhere and downtown has murals everywhere for fun pictures. There's a reason I never left Greeley (:
Overall 4.8
I am so thankful for this school. The professors are amazing and the campus is incredibly beautiful. I am fortunate to have a great advisor who always makes time to meet with me when I need to. There are so many great resources on-campus. This school is great for future teachers, of course. I definitely recommend this school!
Overall 4.7
I loved everything about attending this school. There wasn’t a single day that I regretted attending this college. If I could, I would do it all over again.
Overall 4.5
I enjoyed every year here more than the last. I got my B.S. here in biology and every professor was extremely nice and willing to talk. The opportunities to get into lab work and getting to know your professors was incredibly easy for letters of rec for graduate school. Clubs are also a lot of fun and sports are free to go to as a student.
Overall 4.4
I really love it here. That's all. Profs are incredible. Class culture is great.
Overall 4.4
Loved UNC. I had the best experience there. Reason I loved it: I got super involved in clubs, events, jobs, etc on campus. Graduated and got a job that pays better than my friends who spent waaaay more money to go to Boulder for the same degree. It's all about networking. UNC has a ton of opportunities, just GET INVOLVED and you will find them!
Overall 4.4
I love UNC. iT'S THE HIDDEN GEM OF COLORADO.
Overall 4.3
For an out of state student I was so scared coming to UNC not knowing anyone, but this school offers so much.. free laundry, 8 dollars of printing, free tutoring for every subject, and clubs for every activity and religion you can think of. This town is so cute and if you choose to get involved you will not regret it. FRESHIES DO COMMUNITY COUNCIL
Overall 4.3
Beautiful campus, very safe with various emergency posts throughout the campus as well as its own police department with officers on duty 24/7 and available for escort services. All of the professors that I have had class with so far are highly qualified and excellent at what they do .There is always something to do around campus
Bad reviews
Overall 1.1
This is truly the most awful school on the planet. It's in the middle of nowhere, often smells like cow excrement (spoiler alert: it's boiled cow's blood from the nearby slaughterhouses), the school only cares about the money they get from students, barely finances anything except the nursing and teaching programs, etc. etc. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!!
Overall 1.2
This campus is full of admins that only care about money. I have been excited to attend UNC forever. They offer decent finical aid, but it's useless at a college that is so severely in debt that it is unjustly cutting programs and staff. Some teachers are great thought. UNC only cares about money and not about you. Can not wait to transfer to CSU!!
Overall 1.3
Not a good college experience.
Overall 1.4
They just want your money, no interest in providing a quality education.
Overall 1.6
First semester went well. Now I think they use the good professors and advisors to reel students in, then they give us all of the horrible professors like Suits and Keenan with crappy tutors, advisors, dorms, TA's- basically everything. Now all I need to do is get enough credits to transfer as far away from here as possible.
Overall 1.8
Horrible place to attend college. The professors do not care at all about the students. If I had to do it over, I would've gone just about anywhere else. Get Congress to defund this trainwreck.
Overall 2
UNC as a school is good (especially if you're going into teaching or nursing) but life as a student kind of sucks. Food is bad and wifi is genuinely horrendous. Like oh my god how hard is it to have wifi that works at least most of the time? Makes it impossible to do any work.
Overall 2
Don’t just check the acceptance rate, check the graduation rate too! It reflects on how bad and good this place is.
Overall 2
Cheapest university in Colorado. You will get what you pay for. Expect pre-made PowerPoints and professors who actively hate putting work into class or using materials that don't come out of a box. You may not know what you're doing in your career after but hey, you can get a 4.0 with almost no effort.
Overall 2
This place sucks. Only thing good about this school is its professors