2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado

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Athletic Training is the 187th most popular major in the country with 3,767 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Colorado, there were 18 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,670 and $29,027 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in athletic training. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their athletic training program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in Colorado

1

Metropolitan State University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#23 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan State University of Denver landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Denver is a public institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Athletic Training at MSU Denver

2

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, Colorado

#10 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Colorado landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Greeley, Colorado, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Northern Colorado Athletic Training Report

3

Colorado Mesa University
Grand Junction, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Mesa University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado. Located in Grand Junction, Colorado, this medium-sized public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s athletic trainer students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Athletic Training at Colorado Mesa University

3

Colorado State University - Pueblo
Pueblo, Colorado

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Pueblo landed the #3 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Pueblo is a medium-sized school located in Pueblo, Colorado that handed out 0 bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Colorado State University - Pueblo Athletic Training Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training

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.