University of Northern Colorado Points Of Pride

•	We are one of only three recipients of the prestigious Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Preparation from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities in 2007.

•	Typically, 96 percent of our bachelor degree recipients are employed or attending graduate school one year after graduation.

•	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.

•	We are designated by the Colorado Legislature as the primary institution for undergraduate and graduate teacher education in the state of Colorado.

•	Our undergraduate-only business program is the only one in the world to be accredited by AACSB International in both business and accounting.

•	The University Symphony Orchestra was named the Best U.S. College Orchestra in 2007, the sixth time in the past nine years.

•	Hispanic Studies faculty members and students are working with the Smithsonian Institution on the Braceros Project, preserving memories and artifacts of U.S. farm factory workers.

•	Forbes Magazine recently ranked Greeley as one of the top places in the country for business and careers, and named Weld County as having the fastest rising standard of living in America over the past five years.

•	Down Beat Magazine has rated the University Jazz Band the No. 1 college jazz band in America the past two years.

•	We prepare more than 800 teachers per year, putting UNC among the top 5 percent of producers of teachers in the U.S.

•	Our graduating nursing students regularly score in the top 15 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.

•	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.

•	Our nursing education doctoral program is one of only six in the nation, and our online doctoral program is one of only three in the nation.

•	The Jazz Studies program has won more than 100 Down Beat Magazine awards in the last 30 years.

•	Graduating business students score 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.