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2022 Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

8 Ranked Colleges
218 Degrees Awarded
$15,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

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 Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,599 people earned their degree in statistics, making the major the 88th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, statistics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,950 and had an average of $22,199 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 359 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,600 and $12,435 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 218 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 8 colleges that offered a degree in statistics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent statistics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the statistics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Statistics in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. Brigham Young University - Provo is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 144 bachelors’s stats degrees to qualified students.

BYU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $13,322 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid per year to attend BYU.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Statistics at BYU

#2

University of Wyoming

Laramie, Wyoming
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wyoming landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Wyoming is located in Laramie, Wyoming and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s stats degrees to qualified students.

UW did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $12,159 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid per year to attend University of Wyoming.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Statistics at UW

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Utah State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. USU is a public institution located in Logan, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

USU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Utah State University is $13,634 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid.

Full Utah State University Statistics Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, this large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s stats students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $18,668 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid per year to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Colorado State Statistics Report

#5

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho
#7 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Moscow, Idaho, this fairly large public school awarded 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s stats students in 2019-2020.

U of I did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. It costs about $14,132 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Stats students with aid per year to attend University of Idaho.

Full University of Idaho Statistics Report

#8 in overall quality

Metropolitan State University of Denver ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. MSU Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 1 bachelors’s stats degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Denver also made our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #8. The estimated yearly cost for MSU Denver is $14,257 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Stats students with aid.

Read more about Statistics at MSU Denver

#7

Montana State University

Bozeman, Montana
#6 in overall quality

Montana State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #7. Montana State University is a fairly large public school situated in Bozeman, Montana. It awarded 6 bachelors’s stats degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Bozeman also took the #6 spot in our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Montana State University is $19,202 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid.

Read more about Statistics at MSU Bozeman

#3 in overall quality

University of Colorado Boulder did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Stats Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #8. University of Colorado Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 1 bachelors’s stats degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also took the #3 spot in our “Best Statistics Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $21,680 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree stats students with aid per year to attend CU - Boulder.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full CU - Boulder Statistics Report

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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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