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The college offers more than 80 majors, minors, and specialized programs including: [[Southwest studies]], [[women’s studies]], [[Asian studies]], [[biochemistry]], [[environmental science]], [[neuroscience]], [[Latin American studies]], Russian and Eurasian studies, and American cultural studies, as well as an across-the-curriculum writing program. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the college offers a [[Master of Arts (postgraduate)|Master of Arts]] in Teaching (MAT) degree. Tutt Library has approximately half a million bound volumes.
 
Considered one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges, Colorado College perennially ranks in the top tier of Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S. News Rankings, most recently ranging from a high of 19th in 1999 to a low of 33rd in 2005, one of its rare appearances outside the top 30 in recent years. In a January 2004 ranking of all colleges and universities by Kiplingers magazine, it placed 31st. And in the 2006 U.S. News rankings it was 30th among Liberal Arts Colleges, and soared to 13th place in Best Values among all National Colleges. In 2008, Colorado College became the first Liberal Arts college west of the Mississippi to secure the overall top spot in any national ranking, when it placed No. 1 on the Global Language Monitor's analysis of Internet media buzz. <ref>[http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/16/Harvard-tops-US-colleges-in-media-buzz/UPI-85611221582607/]</ref>
 
Colorado College has one of the highest retention rates of any college or university in the country at 96 percent. Colorado College also has one of the nation's lowest acceptance rates, at 24 percent, with a very high yield at 48 percent. Furthermore, the median ACT of the class of 2012 is a 31, and one-fourth of the class graduated in the top 1 percent of their high school class.<ref>[http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9459310 College admissions miss "risks" - The Denver Post<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>