2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 11,380 people earned their degree in general journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States.

Across Colorado, there were 263 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,172 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general journalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Colorado

1

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Colorado

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 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado. CU - Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 5 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Journalism at CU - Boulder

2

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Colorado. Fort Collins, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s journalism degrees to 128 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Journalism at Colorado State

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism

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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