The University of Denver (DU) is a coeducational, four-year college in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1864, it is the most established free private college in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States. DU enlists roughly 5,600 college understudies and 6,100 graduate understudies. The 125-section of land (0.51 km2) primary grounds is an assigned arboretum and is found essentially in the University Neighborhood, around seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Denver.
On March 3, 1864 the college was established as the Colorado Seminary by John Evans, the previous Governor of Colorado Territory, who had been named by President Abraham Lincoln. John Evans is the namesake of Evans Avenue (which divides the DU grounds and goes through the Denver metro zone), Mount Evans (a 14,264 foot mountain noticeable from DU), and the city of Evanston, Illinois (the site of Northwestern University, established by Evans preceding his establishing of DU).
Evans established the school to "edify" the recently made (1858) city of Denver, which was minimal more than a mining camp around then.
As a co-instructive establishment, as per College Board, under a focused standard, the normal conceded candidate is at his or her main 25% of their graduating class.
The opposite initials "DU" are utilized as the college's shorthand moniker (instead of the more natural "UD") as a feature of a Rocky Mountain and midwestern custom of introductory inversion, like the University of Colorado's "CU", the University of Tulsa's "TU", the University of Oklahoma's "OU", the University of Nebraska's "NU", the University of Missouri's "MU", and the University of Kansas' "KU."