Introduction
Colorado State University, also known as Colorado State and CSU, is a public research university located in the city of Fort Collins. It is Colorado’s land grant university as well as the flagship institution of the Colorado State University System.
In addition to the main Fort Collins campus, which includes a veterinary teaching hospital, the university also has two smaller campuses, Pingree Park and Foothills. The Pingree Park campus, which is just over 50 miles west of Fort Collins, is home to CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources. The Foothills campus, approximately three miles west of the main campus, houses many special research facilities.