2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & IS Security in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 22,829 people earned their degree in computer and IS security, making the major the 50th most popular in the United States.

Across Colorado, there were 250 computer and IS security graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 computer and IS security graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,172 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in computer and IS security. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computer and IS security program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree computer and information systems security/auditing/information assurance students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & IS Security in Colorado

1

Colorado Christian University
Lakewood, Colorado

#11 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado list. This medium-sized school is located in Lakewood, Colorado, and it awarded 8 masters’s computer and information systems security / auditing / information assurance degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Computer & IS Security at CCU

2

Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, Colorado

#7 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this large private for-profit school handed out 18 degrees to qualified masters’s computer and information systems security / auditing / information assurance students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Computer & IS Security at Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs

3

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#3 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado. DU is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 9 masters’s computer and information systems security / auditing / information assurance degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Denver Computer & IS Security Report

4

Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#23 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan State University of Denver. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Computer and Information Systems Security/Auditing/Information Assurance Major in Colorado list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s computer and information systems security / auditing / information assurance degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Full MSU Denver Computer & IS Security Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & IS Security in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Computer & IS Security

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Craig Dennis.