"I love your creativity and artists."

"I love your creativity and artists." Amy | Boulder, CO

Amy, THE CREATIVE ENERGY IN COLORADO IS off the charts.

That's why CU treats creative thinking like a core skill you can develop and apply in every major, leading CU students to create new experiences, make unbelievable breakthroughs, and enrich every field they touch.

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C What U Can Be.

CU students are the creative engine of Colorado – building, imagining, and innovating in ways that push every field forward, because we believe that creativity lives in the studio, the lab, the code, and the clinic. See how each of our campuses is cultivating the next generation of makers, storytellers, and problem-solvers:

Denver

CU Denver is bristling with urban energy and artistic ambition, and its College of Arts & Media is built to match. Whether students are pursuing digital art and animation, or looking for a way into the music industry, they're learning in a city that doesn't let them stay theoretical for long. Denver's creative programs push students to move fluidly across disciplines, blending technical skill with artistic instinct to make pieces and products that enrich, empower, and entertain.

Boulder

Big ideas thrive at CU Boulder, who has long been a home for students who think expansively. From Cinema Studies and film production to fine arts, creative writing, and music, Boulder gives students the tools to take their ideas as far as they go, and a campus community that shows up for each other's work. 

Colorado Springs

At UCCS, creativity lives across every discipline. Whether students are starting startups or building immersive environments, they're encouraged to treat innovation as a creative act by pursuing a number of unique Bachelor of Innovation degree pathways. UCCS gives students room to experiment with their craft, and the practical grounding to make it real.

Anschutz

The CU Anschutz Medical Campus is home to some of the most imaginative problem-solving in medicine. Through programs like Biomedical Sciences & Biotechnology, students are trained not just to understand the body at a cellular level, but to rethink what treatment, diagnostics, and research can look like.
 

A Denver student in front of their art exhibition wall titled "COMFORT FOOD: Art to feed your heart," featuring vibrant illustrations of food characters on posters, t-shirts, and tote bags.
Two designers collaborating at a dual-monitor workstation, discussing game design.
A close-up shot of a professional camera monitor displaying a smiling woman during a video shoot in a dark studio.
A researcher in a white lab coat and gloves using a pipette to carefully transfer liquid into a small vial in a laboratory setting.