2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Secondary Education is the 88th most popular major in the country with 9,530 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 168 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in secondary education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great secondary education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the secondary education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Westminster College Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 in overall quality

$14,669 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Westminster College Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Westminster College Salt Lake is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.

Westminster College Salt Lake also took the #3 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Westminster College Salt Lake are $14,669, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Westminster College Salt Lake Secondary Education Report

#2

Utah State University

Logan, Utah

#2 in overall quality

$22,598 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region. USU is a public institution located in Logan, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Utah State University are $22,598, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full USU Secondary Education Report

#3

Regis University

Denver, Colorado

#4 in overall quality

$14,322 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Regis University landed the #3 spot on the list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s secondary teaching degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

Regis U not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regis U are $14,322, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Regis U

#4

Colorado College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$41,933 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado College landed the #4 spot on the list. Colorado College is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 masters’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.

Colorado College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado College are $41,933, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Colorado College Secondary Education Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Secondary Education

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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