When the University of Colorado Denver announced a brand new bioengineering department this month, it took only a couple of days for Colorado State University to point out that it already had such a program.
The two, about 65 miles apart, are a bit different — CU's is an actual department; CSU offers a master's and Ph.D. — but each costs between $230,000 and $350,000 a year to operate, with professors, support staff and labs.It is this neck-and-neck competition — an unfettered arms race of degrees among public colleges and universities — that elected and higher-education leaders say could use an overhaul as college presidents brace for at least another $150 million in state budget cuts statewide over the next two years.
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