The Real Number of CCU Students

In CCU's proposals they and Shea Homes estimated a total of 1000-1500 students would live on the new Highlands Ranch campus. From the CCU press release that was published about withdrawing their interest in Highlands Ranch, CCU estimated their student housing would be expanded from approximately the nine hundred of today to a capacity nearly three times that after their new campus is completed.

Here is the pertinent part of the press release:

During fall 2009, CCU submitted a preliminary proposal to the Highlands Ranch Community Association to explore the purchase of a 100-acre parcel of open space south of Rock Canyon High School, west of Monarch Boulevard. If approved, the University would relocate its main campus to Highlands Ranch, boosting from a residential campus of approximately 900 students to a capacity nearly three times that.

It is evident that the estimates CCU and Shea proposed to the HRCA and the citizens of Highlands Ranch was far too low. There is a significant difference between the 1500 presented and and upwards if 2700 students living on campus. This also makes the number of students estimated to live off campus a questionable figure as well.