2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” 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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communications 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 communications program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$25,774 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

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 #1 for the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this fairly large public school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified masters’s communication arts students 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

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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