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Hoover dam said:

Think about it, the Valley has 4.3 million people and ONE traditional, four year, public university. ONE. That's crazy. And its not like that gap has been filled by private schools, since Phoenix lacks a lot of high dollar philanthropist types we don't have anyone to found something like a Vanderbilt U, its all online colleges, technical schools and night schools that are mostly diploma mills that don't exactly produce high dollar workers or attract big companies to move here.

That is crazy considering the Pueblo/ Colorado Springs region has about 750,000 people and we have 2 major universities (CSU - Pueblo and UCCS) a academy (Air Force Academy) and a number of private school including Colorado College that is a 4 year school and community colleges.