Is it easier to get into a University in Colorado than it is to in California

[land_of_ice]

Since schools in California offering engineering M.A.s, B.A.s, and P.H.D.s are for the most part very competitive, would it be easier to get into a university in say Colorado?

[twofish-quant]

It's pretty much impossible to generalize since things vary wildly from campus to campus and from department to department. For physics and astronomy programs, AIP publishes a catalog of graduate programs which has admission statistics for all of the graduate programs in the US.

[Nick R]

Colorado's site said they had 550 applicants to their PhD program last year and the incoming class was 27. Figure about 100 got accepted, so 1 in 5 people get accepted when applying to Colorado. I imagine the statistics for the "more prestigious" UC's are similar.

[dreiter]

If you are looking into Engineering Physics or another engineering field, CSM is very well ranked also.

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