2021 Best Area Studies Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Rocky Mountains Region
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Finding the Best Area Studies Schools for Non-Traditional Students
This year's Best Area Studies Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer a bachelor's in area studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent area studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to non-traditional students.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as affordability, and overall quality of the area studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Area Studies Schools for Non-Traditional Students list, to help you choose the best school for you.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Featured Area Studies Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Explore societal similarities and differences as seen through cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic lenses when you earn one of your degrees in anthropology from Southern New Hampshire University.
Brigham Young University - Provo has taken the #1 spot in this year's area studies ranking for non-traditional students. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Provo. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, BYU has also earned the #1 rank in our Best Colleges for Area Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
The student loan default rate at BYU is lower than is typical, just 0.4% of students default in three years. There are approximately 12,325 students at BYU that take at least one class online. About 4,504 of the students at BYU are attending part time.
Utah State University earned the #2 spot in our 2021 rankings. USU is a very large public school located in the small city of Logan. As a testament to the quality of education offered at USU, the school also landed the #2 rank in our Best Colleges for Area Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.8%. Approximately 13,751 students take at least one class online at USU. 9,734 of USU students are attending part time.
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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