{"admissions":{"act_25":null,"act_75":null,"admit_rate":89.6,"applicants":36612,"sat_25":null,"sat_75":null,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":null,"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Colorado State University (Fort Collins) is a public four-year college in CO. It admitted 90% of applicants (36,612 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Average enrolled GPA 3.7 (unweighted, 2025-26, as published by the college).","Cost: about $21,279 a year on average with aid, $31,642 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $60,543 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $520,314 ahead with aid, $478,862 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer and Information Sciences, General ($114,076); Information Science/Studies ($102,765); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($99,172).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 35% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Colorado State University (Fort Collins): 38, 92 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Albuquerque Academy (4.0 per class year, 16 over 4 class years, Classes of 2021-2024); Punahou School (2.2 per class year, 9 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)); Kamehameha Schools (2.0 per class year, 14 over 7 class years, the last seven years, 2017-2023). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/colorado-state-university-fort-collins.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Colorado State University (Fort Collins): 5, 24 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (11.0 per class year, 11 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Key School (1.2 per class year, 7 over 6 class years, 2021 - 2026, counted column \"Acceptances 2021\u20132026\"); The Altamont School (0.6 per class year, 3 over 5 class years, Classes of 2021-2025). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/colorado-state-university-fort-collins.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/colorado-state-university-fort-collins.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":13259},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":14460},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":15905},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":21927}],"full_price":31642,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":21279,"npc_url":"https://admissions.colostate.edu/cost-financial-aid/net-price-calculator/","tuition_in_state":13373,"tuition_out_of_state":34783},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":60543,"median_6yr_after_entry":49748},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":24,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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