2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Medicine in the Rocky Mountains Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Medicine is the 40th most popular major in the country with 20,073 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 303 medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 303 medicine graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,140 and $97,138 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in medicine. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality medicine 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 medicine program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Medicine in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$24,695 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region. U of U is a public institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 132 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region doctor’s degree medicine students list, U of U has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at U of U are $24,695.

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#2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$23,915 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Medicine Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this large public school handed out 171 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s medicine students in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Medicine Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at CU Anschutz are $23,915.

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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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