Colorado puts less state money behind each college student
State and local support for public higher education, per full-time-equivalent student, on the publisher's own inflation- and enrollment-adjusted basis. Colorado against the national average, over the whole series the publisher covers.
The measure changed part-way through this series. The publisher's own note 4: "Data prior to FY 2001 come from a different source but have the same definitions." The definitions carry across the seam, so the series is published through it — but a period-over-period comparison crossing FY 2000 → FY 2001 crosses a source change.
The measure changed part-way through this series. Same seam as the Colorado series: SHEF's pre-FY 2001 data come from a different source with the same definitions (the publisher's own note 4).
Where these figures come from
- State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) — State Higher Education Finance (SHEF), FY 2025 — Report Data workbook, state × fiscal year 1980-2025 (opens in a new tab)
Data as of 10 September 2026. Every figure here is read from the checked Colorado dataset when this page is built, so a correction to the data corrects this page. Nothing on it was typed by hand.
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