2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Communication Sciences & Disorders in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Communication Sciences & Disorders is the 110th most popular major in the country with 7,269 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 479 general communication sciences and disorders graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 57 general communication sciences and disorders graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general communication sciences and disorders. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general communication sciences and disorders.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree communication science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Communication Sciences & Disorders in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

#13 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Utah State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Utah State University is a large school located in Logan, Utah that handed out 36 masters’s communication science degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full USU General Communication Sciences & Disorders Report

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. CU - Boulder is located in Boulder, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 21 masters’s communication science degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full CU - Boulder General Communication Sciences & Disorders Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Communication Sciences & Disorders

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.

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