2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 559,661 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 25,582 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,558 and $15,080 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts / sciences and humanities programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the liberal arts / sciences and humanities program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (Income $48-$75k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Adams State University

Alamosa, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$10,551 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adams State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Adams State University is a small school located in Alamosa, Colorado that handed out 12 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

Adams State also made our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Adams State are $10,551, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

$52,899 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 6 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2019-2020.

DU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’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 DU are $52,899.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities (Income $48-$75k)

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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