62. Community College of Denver
City: Denver, CO
Category: Education
Telephone: (303) 556-2600
Address: 1111 W. Colfax Ave.
Description: With about 6,600 full-time and part-time students, this is Metro Denver’s “inner-city” community college. It shares the Auraria Higher Education Center’s 175-acre campus with the Metropolitan State College of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver. About 37,000 students can cross-register in the courses of all three schools. The college offers degree programs in the full range of college subjects, as well as transfer courses for the baccalaureate degree, occupational programs for job entry skills or upgrading, remedial instruction and GED prep, continuing education, community services, and cooperative programs with the other schools.