Campus Locations

Auraria Campus, CCD’s main location, is in the heart of Denver and within walking distance to downtown, Larimer Square, the 16th Street Mall, LoDo, the Denver Pavilions, Colorado Convention Center, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Complex. The Auraria Campus is also just minutes away from each of the following: Sports Authority Field at Mile High, home of the Denver Broncos, Coors Field’s Colorado Rockies, Elitch Gardens, Downtown Aquarium, and the Pepsi Center, which is home to NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, NBA’s Denver Nuggets, and NLL’s Colorado Mammoth, as well as a hub for concerts and other events throughout the year.

Opened in 2015, the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) is a state-of-the-art 33,280-square-foot facility located at directly north of the Regency Student Housing Community and only about four miles from the main Auraria Campus. This facility hosts two trades programs, fabrication welding and machine technologies, as well as non-credit machining and welding training.

During the summer of 1999, CCD’s Center for Health Sciences moved to the Lowry neighborhood, bordering east Denver and west Aurora.

Formerly Lowry Air Force Base, classrooms were renovated to house the health programs and the former base dental clinic was adapted for CCD’s dental hygiene program.

The Fred N. Thomas Career Education Center Early College of Denver (CEC Early College) is a Denver Public Schools (DPS) urban magnet high school located in northwest Denver near I-25 and Speer Boulevard in Denver, and has been providing CEC Early College high school students with real-life learning experiences in dozens of career-oriented courses since 1976.