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2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

7 Ranked Colleges
67 Degrees Awarded
$39,022 Avg Salary
Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Liberal Arts General Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 1st of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, liberal arts general studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 25,322 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,767 and $16,047 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 67 liberal arts general studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts general studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts general studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.

Top 7 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts General Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

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University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. University of Denver is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 52 masters’s liberal arts degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Adams State University
Alamosa, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Adams State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Alamosa, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s liberal arts degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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Montana State University
Bozeman, Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. MSU Bozeman is located in Bozeman, Montana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s liberal arts degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Utah is a public institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Denver, Colorado, and it awarded 3 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Brigham Young University - Provo ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. This large school is located in Provo, Utah, and it awarded 36 masters’s liberal arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.

Read full report on Liberal Arts General Studies at Brigham Young University - Provo

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Utah State University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Logan, Utah, this large public school awarded 1,038 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal arts students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Utah State University Liberal Arts General Studies Report

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