2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Geography in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Geography Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 5,476 people earned their degree in geography, making the major the 144th most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 379 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 geography graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,967 and $17,711 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geography programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the geography 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 Geography Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region associate degree geography students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Geography in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

College of Western Idaho

Nampa, Idaho

#1 in overall quality

$6,711 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Western Idaho. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Geography Schools for an Associate in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in Nampa, Idaho, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s geography students in 2019-2020.

CWI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Geography Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The yearly cost to attend College of Western Idaho is $6,711 for Rocky Mountains Region Associate Degree Geography students.

Read full report on Geography at College of Western Idaho

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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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