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Colorado State University Rankings 2025
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- CSU US News & World Report Ranking 2025
- CSU QS Ranking 2025
- CSU THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2025
- CSU ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
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CSURanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Colorado State University has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Colorado State University stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A by Shiksha Grading, Colorado State University is also rated B++ for courses, such as MS and BBA. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Colorado State University courses are in the range of B++ and C+ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Colorado State University ranks #442, which is declining in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #409 in 2024. Colorado State University also ranks #401 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Colorado State University witnessed a stable trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #401 in 2023. Additionally, Colorado State University ranks #151 in US News 'National University' category in 2024.
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CSUCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded Colorado State University streams, such as Business & Management Studies, Engineering, and Humanities & Social Sciences with B++, B++, and B+ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
However, in case students are wondering how well is Colorado State University ranked for its subjects as per other ranking bodies, the institute is popular for its Civil Engineering PG, Chemical Engineering PG, Global MBA, and Biological Sciences courses all over the world. In the US News ranking 2024, Colorado State University stands at #36 for Civil Engineering PG program. Additionally, it is also ranked at #66 for Chemical Engineering PG. Other than these, Computer Engineering PG at #71, and Mechanical Engineering PG at #71 also got ranked by US News 2024. It is recommended to study Civil Engineering PG as it ranks #36 by US News (the best ranked course of this institute under this ranking body). This ranking stood at #40 in 2023.
Read on to learn more about Colorado State University courses and subject rankings in the below article.
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CSUUS News & World Report Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 276 | 311 | – / – |
| National University | 151 | 151 | 148 |
| Biomedical Engineering PG | 79 | 83 | – / – |
| Chemical Engineering PG | 66 | 62 | – / – |
| Civil Engineering PG | 36 | 37 | – / – |
| Computer Engineering PG | 71 | 71 | – / – |
| Electrical Engineering PG | 76 | 75 | – / – |
| Mechanical Engineering PG | 71 | 86 | – / – |
| UG Business | 86 | 84 | 77 |
CSUQS Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World University | 408 | 409 | 442 |
| Biological Sciences | 251 | 201 | – / – |
| Engineering and Technology | 361 | 307 | – / – |
| Global MBA | 131 | 141 | 151 |
| Mathematics | 351 | 351 | – / – |
| Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 401 | 451 | – / – |
| Medicine | – / – | 401 | – / – |
| Physics and Astronomy | 351 | 351 | – / – |
CSUTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2025
| Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University | 401 | 401 | 401 |
| Arts and Humanities | 501 | 501 | – / – |
| Clinical and Health | 401 | 301 | – / – |
| Engineering | 301 | 301 | – / – |
| Life Sciences | 151 | 201 | – / – |
| PG Business and Economics | 501 | 401 | – / – |
| PG Computer Science | 601 | 601 | – / – |
| Psychology | 301 | 301 | – / – |
CSUARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
| Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universities | 201 | 301 | 201 |
| Law | – / – | 201 | – / – |
| Physics | 201 | 201 | – / – |
| Political Sciences | 151 | 201 | – / – |
| Sociology | 76 | 76 | – / – |
CSUStudents Ratings & Reviews
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- Easy going
- 100% students never faced discrimination in this university
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 4 weeks ago
According to the First Destination Report 2022-23, the CSU placement rate for UG students is 90%, whereas, for graduate students, the employment rate is 97%. On the other hand, 85% of graduates have secured plans within 6 months of graduation. The average salary of international students is given a
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Colorado State University ranks high for the MBA courses. In 2024, the Financial Times recognised CSU's College of Business as one of the five schools worldwide leading the way for responsible business education. As per 2024 Corporate Knights, CSU ranks at #1 in the Better World MBA Large Schools an
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Colorado State University is one of the top public Tier 1 Research Universities in the U.S. The university is recognised among doctoral universities with very high research activity, commonly referred to as R1 by Carnegie. A few of the other rankings of this university are given as follows:
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A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to get into CSU MS in Construction Management. To apply to this course, the applicants are required to apply via the direct university portal. The documents / details required to apply are:
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CSU is one of the nation's top public Tier 1 Research Universities. Among other recognition for research and creative scholarship, this university was recognised in 2022 as one of the Top 10 research institutions in the world contributing to solving the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, in 2024, CSU w
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