2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Epidemiology in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Epidemiology is the 280th most popular major in the country with 2,305 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 125 epidemiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 epidemiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in epidemiology. To top this list, a school must have a successful epidemiology program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Epidemiology in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Providence
Great Falls, Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Providence landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Great Falls, Montana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 14 degrees to qualified masters’s epidemiology students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Epidemiology at University of Providence

2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Epidemiology Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s epidemiology degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Epidemiology at CU Anschutz

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Ernst Haeckel.