Welcome to the
Colorado Department of Higher Education

By coordinating policy and state resources for the state's 28 public institutions as well as several hundred proprietary schools and overseeing two key loan programs, the Department seeks to ensure that higher education is accessible and affordable to all Coloradoans.  The Department helps bring cultural and artistic education opportunities to citizens in each of Colorado's 64 counties.  

The following five departmental agencies are under the Colorado Department of Higher Education: