CU educates eager, hardworking students who enter the workforce and the world with an ability to think critically so they can tackle complex issues. It’s therefore vital that CU expands access to high-quality academics for students from all backgrounds and provides them the resources they need to thrive. This will include increasing scholarship support, improving student services and campus programs, and broadening students’ opportunities to learn alongside the best faculty, researchers and physicians.
Did you know? During the Essential CU campaign, donors like you gave more than $510 million to expand student scholarships across CU's four campuses.
Learn below how you are helping CU students and graduates achieve their dreams.
About Essential CU
CU and its donors are essential to our economy, health, culture and social fabric. We solve our world’s most pressing challenges together. Thanks to generous donors like you, we are supporting CU’s academic, research and public service priorities across our four campuses.
CU Anschutz Fund for Excellence
Science, Research & Innovation
To provide a flexible funding source to address CU Anschutz's most promising priorities in support of research, education and patient care.
Financial Aid Endowment Fund - Need Based.
Scholarships & Student Success
To provide scholarship support for students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Chancellor's Innovation Fund
Scholarships & Student Success
To provide flexible support to address the campus's most promising priorities in enhancing student success and CU Denver's prominence as an institution of higher education.
Bridge Forward Scholarship Endowment
Scholarships & Student Success
Office of Financial Aid
To provide scholarship awards at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs for undergraduate students with an Expected Family Contribution up to 250% above Pell Grant eligibility or similar financial need program.