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Tuition & Fees

In a context of tight budgets, we are working to enhance the educational experience of our students. CC’s cost of attendance is based on extensive deliberations about financial aid, salaries, operating costs, and other economic realities.  This year we continue to strongly support a high-quality experience inside and outside the classroom. 

We also have sought to constrain the increase in the cost of attendance, in the face of ongoing economic challenges for so many of our families. For the 2013-14 academic year, our comprehensive fee will increase by 5.95%.  This comprises tuition of $43,812 (a 6% increase in tuition), with the base room and board rates of $10,312. For students taking one or two blocks in a semester, tuition is charged at the per-block rate of $7370.33.

Our top priorities are maintaining and strengthening the quality of the educational program, holding the undergraduate enrollment target at 1,975, and ensuring access to a CC education. Thus, we have sustained our commitment to hiring new tenure-track faculty—and we have been successful in recruiting our top choices of young, diverse, extraordinarily talented faculty to carry on CC’s tradition of dedicated, student-focused teaching.

A student hard at work in class.
A student hard at work in class.

2013-14

Tuition $43,812  
Student Activity Fee $410  
Room Allowance $5,826 double room in residence hall
Board Allowance $4,486 meal plan C
Books & Supplies $1,244 estimate
Personal/Travel $1,622 non-Colorado residents
  $1022 Colorado residents
Total cost $57,400 non-Colorado residents
  $56,800 Colorado residents

We have ample need-based aid and merit-based scholarships available. Please see our Financial Aid pages for more detail about these funds.