Colorado School of Mines, also referred to as "Mines", is a public teaching and research university in Golden, Colorado, United States, devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources that was founded in 1874. Mines placed 82nd in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities" ranking. A public engineering and applied sciences school in Golden, Colorado, Mines has 14 academic departments, including Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics. The school also offers courses in the Liberal Arts & International Studies and
Economics &
Business departments. In the 2016–17 QS World University Rankings by subject, the university was ranked as the top institution in the world for mineral and mining engineering. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,612, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 499 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Colorado School of Mines's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 75.
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