A flagship university in the University of Colorado system is The University of Colorado Boulder which is also known as CU Boulder. Located in Boulder, Colorado, the university is a public research university. The university was founded five months prior to when Colorado was admitted in Union in the year 1876. The University of Colorado Boulder offers around 150 programs in academics across nine colleges and schools. There are around 17,000 enrollments per year in the University. University consists College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, a new college of Media, Information, and Communication was also started in the year 2014. The programs are available in Education, Environmental Design, Law, and Music. Many of these schools and colleges have doctorate and masters level degree programs. The University of Colorado Boulder offers around 150 programs in academics across nine colleges and schools. There are around 17,000 enrollments per year in the University. University consists College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, a new college of Media, Information and Communication was also started in the year 2014. The programs are available in Education, Environmental Design, Law and Music. Many of these schools and colleges have doctorate and masters level degree programs. There are 85 majors and 3400 courses available across 150 disciplines. The University was able to get funding of USD 454 million for programs like JILA and Laboratory for Atmospheric and space physics. Over the years, there have been many students, alumni, researchers who have excelled across various fields such that there were twelve Nobel Laureates, twenty astronauts and nine MacArthur Fellows have been associated with the University.