Video Transcript: What time is it? It's YOUniversity TV time, where we put you in university! I'm Ferrari St. Paul and we are here at the University of Colorado-Denver, a four-year public research university set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. UC-Denver is located near downtown Denver, Colorado, which is a vibrant metropolitan city offering a wide variety of professional, recreational and cultural opportunities. Denver is also the state capital. When you go downtown, there's always something happening, especially since we're so close right here to the performing arts center, to the convention center, we have LoDo, we have 16th Street Mall, so we have all of that, which is literally, like, five minutes from walking from the classroom. UCD's campus covers 126 acres next to Cherry Creek. Get a rich education here at UC-Denver. The gold rush in the Rocky Mountain area started here at Cherry Creek. The first piece of gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Tree-lined walkways and green spaces highlight the campus. In fact, there's a priority placed on green sustainability, with wind power producing a substantial portion of energy for the school. The Anschutz Medical Campus, which is a new healthcare city covering 227 acres, is located just eight miles to the east and houses the health sciences school, the graduate program, and research enterprise, which exceeds $350 million. My other choice actually was Boulder, but when I came here to see the campus, I really liked this campus when I came, and I liked the fact that it's close to downtown and you have everything close, as Boulder, it's just the university and that's pretty much it. The University of Colorado-Denver enrolls about 12,700 students at the downtown campus with a ratio of 57% female to 43% male, and the average age of the undergraduate student body is 24. We have an extremely diverse population, not just in ethnicities, but in age, too. In my class, there are 17-year-olds to 65-year-olds. I had a class with an 85-year-old who decided to come back to get his college degree. It was really cool. Freshmen looking to apply to UCD are reviewed by several factors. There are certain routes that one can take coming out of high school. It depends on the GPA and their test scores, and also, we do have a program with several community colleges, if they wish to go through the community college ranks and then make their way here. Tuition for Colorado residents is a great value at around $5000 per year. And tuition for out-of-staters runs about $17,000 per year. Room and board costs are approximately $7300. I just looked around at the different animation programs that were available here in Colorado, and it was pretty much the UC-Denver or Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. The UC-Denver is definitely the cheaper one and you get more for your money. Students of the University of Colorado-Denver have lots of career choices with more than 80 degree programs to choose from that cover a wide variety of fields and disciplines. Only 7% of classes have more than 50 students, which makes for a good learning environment. Some of the most popular majors at the UC-Denver include business, psychology, biology, and pre-health professions. Students actually get credit for going out into the workforce and doing jobs, if you will, that relate to what they're learning in the classroom. Faculty members at UCD are some of the best around and experts in their field of study-- not to mention that 4 out of 5 hold a Ph.D. or the highest attainable degree in their field. The faculty are top-rate research scholars, so they all have Ph.D.s, they engage you with the theoretical knowledge you need to succeed, and then blend that with your own past experience or the experience of students in the class. Plus, with a low student-to-faculty ratio of just 15:1, students are able to get the individualized attention they need to be successful in the future. They really want to know what's going on in my life, not just academically. They're curious about my social life and my friends and how I'm settling here. They're curious about whether or not I'm snowboarding on the weekends or learning to ski, if I'm-- how I'm settling in with the weather. Fully furnished apartment-style campus housing is available for about 700 students at Campus Village, which opened in late 2006. Students have all the conveniences of home and can make new friends in a residential setting. Get a taste of the Real World: Denver. The hip MTV show is filmed right here in LoDo, a.k.a. Lower Downtown. Just in case you're looking for stuff to do, UCD has everything from ski trips and renowned guest lecturers to internationally-acclaimed film festivals and poetry readings, just to name a few. In addition, 60 clubs and organizations give UCD students a chance to get involved on campus and have fun at the same time. UC-Denver puts an alternative spin on music. Their unique program focuses on recording arts and music business. I'm rockin' out here in the studio where The Fray got their start. Some of their major hits include "How to Save a Life" and "Cable Car." So if you're looking for a great college experience on an environmentally conscious campus in a progressive city offering lots of great activities and beautiful scenery, be sure to check out University of Colorado- Denver today. Time to hit the tracks. Getting to and from campus is as easy as riding the light rail. I'm headed downtown to check out the sights and sounds of Denver. Thanks for joining us on our tour of the University of Colorado-Denver. I'm Ferrari St. Paul with YOUniversity TV, and I will catch you on the flip side!