2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing in Colorado

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 862,104 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, business, management and marketing is the 1st most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, business, management and marketing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,915 and had an average of $25,393 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 18,639 business, management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,854 and $31,321 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 105 business, management and marketing graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,948 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in business, management and marketing. That schools that top this list have a program in business, management and marketing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado doctor’s degree business, management & marketing students.

Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing in Colorado

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Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado

#7 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado list. Colorado Springs, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out doctorate’s business, management and marketing degrees to 95 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Business, Management & Marketing at Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs

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University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#3 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Denver, Colorado, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s business, management and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Business, Management & Marketing at DU

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University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s business, management and marketing students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.

Full University of Colorado Boulder Business, Management & Marketing Report

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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado

#14 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Business, Management & Marketing Major in Colorado. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is a fairly large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 482 doctorate’s business, management and marketing degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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 Business, Management & Marketing at UCCS

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing in the Rocky Mountains Region
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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 Amit Savargaonkar.