Graduate Students

Graduate Applicants

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at CU Boulder is home to the some of the highest ranked graduate programs in the country.

We enroll 1,900+ graduate students in 12 fields of engineering and applied science, with abundant interdisciplinary opportunities in research and education. Three of our programs are ranked in the top 10 or top 10 percent in the U.S. by the National Research Council, and the college is ranked No. 12 among public engineering graduate programs by U.S. News and World Report.

Graduate Admission Deadlines

The following deadlines are for fall admissions. For information on spring admissions, please visit the individual program website. All deadlines are for 10 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (Midnight Eastern Standard Time).

Program	International Fall	Domestic Fall
Aerospace Engineering Sciences	December 1	December 1
Applied Mathematics	December 1(PhD) April 15 (Professional MS)	December 1 (PhD) April 15 (Professional MS)
Creative Technology and Design	December 1 (PhD) February 15 (Professional MS priority) April 15 (Professional MS final)	December 1 (PhD) February 15 (Professional MS priority) April 15 (Professional MS final)
Biomedical Engineering	December 1	December 1
Chemical and Biological Engineering	December 1	December 15
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering	December 1 (PhD) Feb. 1 (MS)	December 15 (PhD) February 1 (MS)
Computer Science	December 15	December 15
Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering	December 15 (PhD) February 15 (ME, MS, Professional MS)	December 15 (PhD) February 15 (ME, MS, Professional MS)
Engineering Education	January 7 (PhD priority) February 15 (Phd final)	January 7 (PhD priority) February 15 (Phd final)
Engineering Management	January 15	April 15
Environmental Engineering	December 1	December 1
Materials Science and Engineering	December 15	December 15
Mechanical Engineering	December 1 (PhD) February 1 (MS)	December 15 (PhD) February 1 (MS)
Robotics	December 15	December 15

ME = Master's of Engineering, MS = Master's of Science, Professional MS = Professional Master's of Science, PhD = Doctor of Philosophy

In the entrepreneurial hotbed of Boulder, you’ll collaborate with nationally renowned faculty members, loyal industry partners and neighboring national labs to find innovative solutions to challenges the world hasn’t even considered yet. At the University of Colorado Boulder, we’re seeking dreamers and doers capable of addressing the world’s grandest challenges.

Could you be the next:

To help launch a NASA spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid?
To build footbridges helping rural Nicaraguans access health care and education?
To combat cyberbullying using computer science?
To design tiny ingestible robots for medical procedures?
To develop new high-capacity batteries for electric cars?