2022 Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Colorado

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Colorado” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Journalism is the 58th most popular major in the country with 12,336 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 269 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general journalism programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general journalism program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Colorado.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Colorado

#1

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$32,980 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Colorado. This large school is located in Boulder, Colorado, and it awarded 8 masters’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Journalism Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU - Boulder are $32,980, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on General Journalism at University of Colorado Boulder

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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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