2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communications is the 65th most popular major in the country with 11,861 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 371 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communications programs and 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 communications program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$25,774 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. UCCS is a fairly large public school situated in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It awarded 10 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UCCS also made our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UCCS are $25,774.

Read more about Communications at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

#2

Idaho State University

Pocatello, Idaho

$26,548 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Idaho State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication arts degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

ISU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at ISU are $26,548.

Read full report on Communications at Idaho State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications (With Aid)

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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