Higher Education/Higher Education Administration is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #160 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for higher education/higher education administration students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 89 degrees in higher education/higher education administration during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Higher Education/Higher Education Administration School
Your choice of higher education/higher education administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Higher Education/Higher Education Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Higher Education/Higher Education Administration Schools in Colorado ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Higher Education/Higher Education Administration in Colorado
The schools below may not offer all types of higher education/higher education administration degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Colorado Schools in Higher Education/Higher Education Administration
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in higher education/higher education administration. Colorado State is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins. This university ranks 4th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 26 higher education/higher education administration students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Denver is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in higher education/higher education administration. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #126 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 31 higher education/higher education administration students who graduated with this degree at DU in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Northern Colorado is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in higher education/higher education administration. Located in the city of Greeley, University of Northern Colorado is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 9th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 11 higher education/higher education administration students who graduated with this degree at University of Northern Colorado in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Colorado Boulder if you want to pursue a degree in higher education/higher education administration. CU - Boulder is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were about 14 higher education/higher education administration students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of higher education/higher education administration school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Higher Education/Higher Education Administration School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
