page_title: Colorado Mountain College
section_title: Steamboat Springs
hierarchical_section_title: Colorado Mountain College / Residential campuses / Steamboat Springs
caption_attribution_description: English: Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs
context_page_description: Colorado Mountain College is an accredited two-year and four-year institution with eleven college campuses serving 12,000 square miles in Western Colorado, United States. Founded in 1965, the institution grants more than 120 bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certificates, in a wide range of fields from Digital Media to Ski Area Operations. Approximately 20,000 students take on-campus or online classes every year, with a college-wide ratio of thirteen students to each teacher.
  Colorado Mountain College is ranked the highest among Colorado's associate degree granting institutions for graduation and transfer rate, and was named the nation's third-most-affordable bachelor's degree in a 2012 report from the U.S. Department of Education, being the only institution from Colorado to make the list. As of 2018, it had fallen to 19th most affordable in the same ranking.
  The CMC district includes six counties in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains: Eagle, Grand, Jackson, Lake, Garfield, Pitkin, Summit, and Routt. The state-designated service area includes: Grand, Jackson, and Chaffee.
context_section_description: Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Springs provides flexible course schedules for a variety of associate and bachelor's degrees and certificate programs. Notable programs include ski & snowboard business, resort manage management, art, science, outdoor education, restaurant management and dozens more. With 110 residence hall rooms, a frisbee golf course and a ski/snowboard rail yard, the CMC Steamboat Springs residential campus offers access to recreation in every season.
  The campus also hosts the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) certificate tests, for snowsports industry professionals.
  The Colorado Mountain College Steamboat Ski Team  is an associate member of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), the strongest college ski racing conference in the country.
caption: CMC Steamboat Springs campus
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