2022 Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Psychology is the 167th most popular major in the country with 2,656 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, other psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $40,748 and had an average of $55,492 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 103 other psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,000 and $101,135 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 65 other psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other psychology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other psychology programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Naropa University

Boulder, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$22,357 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naropa University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region. Naropa University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Boulder, Colorado. It awarded 17 masters’s other psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Naropa also took the #2 spot in our “Best Other Psychology Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Naropa are $22,357, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Naropa University Other Psychology Report

#2

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$52,899 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,641 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Other Psychology Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Denver is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 48 masters’s other psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

DU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Other Psychology Master’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 DU are $52,899.

Read more about Other Psychology at DU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Psychology

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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