2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 195,678 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $35,611 and had an average of $25,989 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 3,423 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,143 and $29,213 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 46 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,095 and $24,621 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado associate degree psychology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Psychology in Colorado

1

Colorado Christian University
Lakewood, Colorado

#11 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado list. CCU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Lakewood, Colorado. It awarded 40 associates’s psychology degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Otero Junior College
La Junta, Colorado

#18 overall quality in Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Otero Junior College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado list. Located in La Junta, Colorado, this small public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified associates’s psychology students in 2020-2021.

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3

Trinidad State Junior College
Trinidad, Colorado

#24 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Psychology Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinidad State Junior College landed the #3 spot on the list. Trinidad State Junior College is located in Trinidad, Colorado and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s psychology degrees to qualified students.

Full Trinidad State Junior College Psychology 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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