About the Graduate School
The Graduate School at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) oversees, facilitates, and enhances graduate education, while encouraging excellence in research, creative and scholarly work. We offer master’s degrees, doctoral degrees, graduate certificates, and non-degree options in a wide variety of programs. Disciplines include Basic and Biomedical Science, Nursing, Pharmaceutical Science, Public Health, Clinical Science, Biotechnology, Anatomy, Genetic Counseling, and Palliative Care.
CU Anschutz is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region. The campus combines interdisciplinary teaching, research and clinical facilities to prepare the region’s future health care professionals and be a national leader in life sciences research.
The Graduate School administers and serves Master's programs, Doctoral programs, Certificates, and non-degree courses throughout all six schools and colleges across CU Anschutz. We offer resources and support for prospective graduate students, current graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. We welcome you to contact us!
A Graduate Degree is an Investment in the Future
The pursuit of a graduate degree is a commitment to personal development and contributes to the foundation for future success. Our students graduate with skills they’ll use in exciting and challenging professions that expand the frontiers of science, healthcare, technology, commerce, and education for our society as a whole. Our faculty are teacher-scholars who consciously blur the boundaries between research and teaching. They incorporate their freshest, highest quality work in the classroom and through direct hands-on training.
World-Class Education, Research, and Patient Care
CU Anschutz is is the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region. The campus includes the University of Colorado health professional schools, multiple centers and institutes, and two nationally ranked teaching hospitals that treat 1.7 million patients each year. All interconnected, these organizations collaboratively improve the quality of patient care they deliver, research they conduct, and health professionals they train.
The Graduate School serves and supports our students, staff, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and community.
Career Development
The CU Anschutz Career Development Office (CDO) has developed a career development program​ built to help you identify YOUR unique career goals and to provide you opportunities to gain the skills that​ will help you succeed in any career. The CDO's focus is your success.
Program Support
We support graduate programs and faculty by providing services and personnel to meet their administrative, recruitment, and communication needs.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are guided by the highest standards of ethical conduct and foster an atmosphere of inclusion, embracing numerous aspects of identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability status, veteran status, nationality, religion, and socioeconomic background. We value diverse experiences and perspectives, in the belief that they enhance the educational experience for all.
Scholarship and Awards
We sponsor academic awards, service awards, internships, travel, and networking opportunities that enable students to thrive beyond the classroom.
National Recognition
CU Anschutz was selected as one of seventeen universities nationwide for the NIH Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) award, which has allowed us to develop professional training opportunities that will continue to be offered. Please visit the Career Development website for more information.
Community Outreach
Students, postdocs, faculty, and staff, embrace opportunities to engage with our surrounding community in Denver and Aurora. Through public Mini-Schools, mentoring, tutoring, demonstrations, information sessions, and public service, we strive to provide quality and enriching outreach opportunities.