About Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University is a public university circles in Grand Junction, Colorado. The university’s other locations combine Bishop Campus, which houses Western Colorado Community College in northwestern Grand Junction, and a regional campus in Montrose, Colorado. Colorado Mesa University grants associate degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and master’s degrees.

Previously Mesa State College, the bookish attained college circles status in August 2011 and untouched its broadcast to Colorado Mesa University.

The City of Grand Junction is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The city has a council–manager form of government, and is the most populous municipality in everything of western Colorado. Grand Junction is 247 miles (398 km) west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. As of the 2010 census, the city’s population was 58,566. Grand Junction is the sixteenth most populous city in the come clean of Colorado and the most populous city on the Colorado Western Slope. It is a major trailer and transportation hub within the large area between the Green River and the Continental Divide. It is the principal city of the Grand Junction Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 146,723 in 2010 census.

The city is along the Colorado River, at its confluence subsequently the Gunnison River, which comes in from the south. “Grand” refers to the historical Grand River; it was renamed the Upper Colorado River in 1921. “Junction” refers to the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers. Grand Junction has been nicknamed “River City”. It is close the midpoint of a 30-mile (48 km) arcing valley, known as the Grand Valley; since the late 19th century it has been a major fruit-growing region. The valley was long occupied by the Ute people and earlier indigenous cultures. It was not arranged by European-American farmers until the 1880s. Since the late 20th century, several wineries have been standard in the area.

The Colorado National Monument, a unique series of canyons and mesas, overlooks the city on the west. Most of the area is between federal public lands managed by the US Bureau of Land Management. Interstate 70 connects the city eastward to Glenwood Springs and Denver and westward to Green River, Utah; Salt Lake City is reached to the west via Interstate 70 and U.S Route 6; and Las Vegas (via Interstate 70 and Interstate 15).