2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 76 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 76 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality teacher education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the teacher education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree teacher education students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education (Income $30-$48k) in Colorado

#1

Colorado College

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$41,933 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k list. This small school is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it awarded 10 masters’s teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado College are $41,933, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Adams State University

Alamosa, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$10,551 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adams State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k. Alamosa, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s teacher education degrees to 66 students in 2019-2020.

Adams State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Teacher Education Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Adams State are $10,551, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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