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Colorado School of Trades

Lakewood, Colorado Private for-profit 2-year Large suburb

Overview

Colorado School of Trades is a private for-profit two-year institution in Lakewood, Colorado. The campus sits in a large suburban area. It enrolled 85 students in fall 2024.

Colorado School of Trades offers associate degrees across 1 program, the largest being Gunsmithing. It awarded 59 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

93% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 10 to 1.

Mission

Our mission at the Colorado School of Trades is to educate students to achieve their personal and career success by providing a high quality, accessible education; delivered with respect, individual pride, and a company spirit of teaching and learning with passion and purpose. Over the past seven decades, the Colorado School of Trades has developed a system, based upon hands-on project oriented training, geared to train individuals who wish to become artisan craftsmen. The school prides itself on a personal approach that allows the reasonably diligent student to acquire job skills that will allow him or her to enter the work force and begin a lifelong career in their chosen field.

Mission statement as reported by Colorado School of Trades

Key figures

85
Students enrolled
93%
First-year retention
59
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
1
Programs and majors
10:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

Associate

Programs and majors offered 1

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Mechanic and Repair Technologies 1

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
93%
Student-to-faculty ratio
10:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Associate degrees
59

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
85
Undergraduates, fall 2024
85
Full-time, fall 2024
100%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
122
Full-time, 2024-25
100%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
7%
Men
93%
White
70%
Hispanic or Latino
12%
Black or African American
2%
Asian
2%
Two or more races
1%
American Indian or Alaska Native
2%
Race or ethnicity unknown
10%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Large suburb
Academic calendar
Continuous
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Two-Year: Technical Professions
Director of Financial Aid
Jessi Ellis
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Student employment services, Job placement for graduates

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