Academics
At the University of Denver—the oldest private university in the Rocky Mountain region—the faculty and staff are “extremely dedicated to ensuring that the students receive a high-quality, worthwhile education.” The business and accountancy programs are the standouts of the “plethora of classes to choose from,” but the school is all about “a global view and interdisciplinary courses” and so has one of the best study abroad programs in the nation, giving students the option to do so without straying from their majors or incurring additional expense, and offering international travel interterm courses to students.
The “lively, passionate” professors teach with hands-on, real life examples that “prompt students to critically think and apply what is learned in the classroom to our future careers and life.” Teachers usually allow students to dictate speed and amount of discussion on a topic as the class allows, and take a vested interest in each student’s success: They “care more about how you do in the long run than how you may perform in individual classes.” “If you try hard, they will engage with you and truly become your friends.” “The face-to-face time you get with them is a big reason why I feel so connected to my school,” says another student.
Networking here “happens almost without effort; it is ingrained in every aspect of most classes and activities” and there is a “good connection with [the] Denver business community.” DU has “basically every resource on campus for advising, counseling, health, and assistance with school work,” an “awesome” library, and “there are a lot of ‘green’ initiatives…it feels quite progressive.” Though the common curriculum isn’t universally beloved, students appreciate that DU runs on a quarterly system, so people “can take more credits than other semester schools…if you don’t like a particular class ... you are done within ten weeks and you can move on with classes you enjoy.”
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