by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Business/Commerce is the 16th most popular major in the country with 56,042 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general business/commerce graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,399 and had an average of $26,389 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 1,904 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,981 and $28,994 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 296 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general business/commerce. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general business/commerce.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree general business students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Pueblo. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Pueblo, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 39 diplomas to qualified masters’s general business students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s general business degrees to 195 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah Valley University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Utah Valley University is a public institution located in Orem, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 62 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Utah Valley University General Business/Commerce Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Utah is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s general business degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Mesa University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Business Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Colorado Mesa University is a medium-sized school located in Grand Junction, Colorado that handed out 0 masters’s general business degrees in 2020-2021.
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