High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The University of Colorado Denver, shortened as UCD or UC Denver, is a public university in the United States state of Colorado. It is one of three schools of the University of Colorado system. UC Denver is the largest research institution in the state of Colorado. The university has two campuses, one in downtown Denver at the Auraria Campus and the Anschutz Medical Campus located in neighboring Aurora. The downtown campus features both undergraduate and graduate courses, with the student population currently comprising more than 40 percent graduate (or masters and doctoral) students. The university offers a wide variety of degrees and is host to the university's teaching hospital, the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The single university is the result of the 2004 consolidation of the "University of Colorado at Denver" and "University of Colorado Health Sciences Center."