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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

The Campuses


Metropolitan State University of Denver is located at the Auraria Higher Education Center, a 127-acre campus in downtown Denver at Auraria Parkway and Speer Boulevard. The Community College of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver share the facilities with MSU Denver.

Student Success Building

The campus includes more than one million square feet of space for classrooms, laboratories and offices. The Student Success Building, the first of two new MSU Denver Neighborhood buildings, opened in March 2012. The $62-million building, funded entirely by student-approved fees, houses classrooms, administrative offices, and student services, including admissions, advising, registration, financial aid, and the bursar’s office, all in one convenient location.

Hospitality Students in the HLC

Hotel and Hospitality Learning Center

MSU Denver’s Hotel and Hospitality Learning Center is one of only 11 teaching hotels on a university campus in the country. The hotel, a SpringHill Suites ® by Marriott, includes 150 hotel rooms and conference facilities. It also provides hands-on training opportunities for students in the University’s Department of Hospitality, Tourism and Events. The adjacent Hospitality Learning Center boasts more than 28,000 square feet of academic space, including classrooms, specialty learning labs and faculty offices.

Historic Ninth Street Park and Tivoli Brewery

Other administrative offices are located in restored Victorian homes in Denver’s historic Ninth Street Park located on the Auraria site. The campus also features a child care center; the comprehensive, 184,000 square-foot Auraria Library designed by Helmut Jahn of CF Murphy, which won an award from the American Institute of Architects; and one of the most unusual student union facilities in the country located in the historic, Bavarian-style Tivoli Brewery Building. Excellent physical fitness facilities include a block-long physical education/events center with a swimming pool, weight room, game courts, dance studios, a climbing wall, and event seating for 3,000.

Center for Visual ArtCenter for Visual Art on Santa Fe

The University’s proximity to downtown Denver enables students and faculty to use the community as a learning laboratory and to connect classroom theory to the cultural, economic, social, and political practices of the city. The Center for Visual Art (CVA), located in the Santa Fe Art District, is the University’s off-campus art gallery. In addition to showing significant contemporary art, the award-winning CVA serves as an interactive art laboratory for MSU Denver students and the larger community.

Satellite Campus Location: MSU Denver South

In 1976, MSU Denver founded the Extended Campus Program to serve the needs of adult learners who live and work throughout the Denver metropolitan area.  Since then, Extended Campus has been committed to delivering Colorado’s best value in higher education to a diverse and geographically widespread metropolitan community.

Extended Campus, renamed Innovative and Lifelong Learning, addresses the changing needs of student populations.  The mission of Innovative and Lifelong Learning is to extend the reach and achieve the goals of MSU Denver by engaging and supporting learners in quality courses and innovative programs through collaboration with faculty, the University community, businesses, and external partners.   Innovative and Lifelong Learning is located at MSU Denver South Campus in a spacious, modern facility designed for adult learners.

MSU Denver South Campus

5660 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 100,
Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (near I-25 and Orchard Rd.)
303-721-1313

https://msudenver.edu/innovative-lifelong-learning/