2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 12,001 people earned their degree in communications, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States.

Across Colorado, there were 219 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 212 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communications.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree communication arts students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Colorado

1

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 #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Colorado. UCCS is a fairly large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 157 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communications at UCCS

2

Colorado State University - Global Campus
Greenwood Village, Colorado

#6 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Global Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and it awarded 55 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Colorado State University - Global Campus Communications Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications

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.

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