2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 456 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,417 and $25,580 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that 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 education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree education students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Colorado

#1

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$15,358 Average Net Price

$29,141 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s education degrees to 47 students in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz also made our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is $15,358 for colorado bachelor’s degree education students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Education at CU Anschutz

#2

Colorado Christian University

Lakewood, Colorado

#3 in overall quality

$25,268 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado list. Located in Lakewood, Colorado, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2019-2020.

CCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The yearly cost to attend Colorado Christian University is $25,268 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Education students.

Read more about General Education at Colorado Christian University

#3

Colorado College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$26,753 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2019-2020.

Colorado College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. It costs about $26,753 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Education students per year to attend Colorado College.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Colorado College General Education Report

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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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