2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Learning Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,541 people earned their degree in learning sciences, making the major the 337th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 1,228 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 learning sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in learning sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in learning sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree learning sciences students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Learning Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, Utah

#5 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Governors University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s learning sciences degrees to 39 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Learning Sciences at WGU

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Learning Sciences Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s learning sciences degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Learning Sciences at CU - 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

• *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

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