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2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

8 Ranked Colleges
191 Degrees Awarded
$20,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication & Media Studies is the 74th most popular major in the country with 10,951 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 229 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 191 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communication and media studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brigham Young University - Provo. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k. BYU is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 71 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at BYU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $15,362 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Brigham Young University - Provo.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Brigham Young University - Provo

#2

Dixie State University

Saint George, Utah
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dixie State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Dixie State College is a fairly large school located in Saint George, Utah that handed out 15 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Dixie State College also made our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $12,472 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Dixie State University.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Colorado Boulder is a public institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 21 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CU - Boulder, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend CU - Boulder is $25,863 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at CU - Boulder

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Pueblo. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Colorado State University - Pueblo is located in Pueblo, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 28 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

Colorado State University - Pueblo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado State University - Pueblo is $17,886 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Colorado State University - Pueblo Communication & Media Studies Report

#8 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Montana State University - Billings landed the #5 spot on the list. Billings, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s media studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Montana State University - Billings not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $16,466 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Montana State University - Billings.

Full Montana State University - Billings Communication & Media Studies Report

#6

Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, Colorado
#7 in overall quality

Colorado Mesa University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k ranking, coming in at #6. Colorado Mesa University is located in Grand Junction, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 38 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

Colorado Mesa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Colorado Mesa University is $18,596 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Media Studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Colorado Mesa Communication & Media Studies Report

#6 in overall quality

Northwest Nazarene University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k ranking. NNU is a small school located in Nampa, Idaho that handed out 4 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2019-2020.

NNU also took the #6 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Northwest Nazarene University is $21,961 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Northwest Nazarene University Communication & Media Studies Report

#8

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado
#3 in overall quality

With a ranking of #8, University of Denver did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. University of Denver is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at DU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $31,512 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree media studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend DU.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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