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2022 Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

7 Ranked Colleges
249 Degrees Awarded
$19,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor's in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 8,936 people earned their degree in geography and cartography, making the major the 107th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, geography and cartography graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,126 and had an average of $23,577 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 435 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,150 and $25,996 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 249 geography and cartography graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geography and cartography. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality geography and cartography programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the geography and cartography program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree geography students with aid.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Geography & Cartography in Colorado (With Aid)

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geography degrees to 36 students in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz also took the #4 spot in our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. It costs about $15,358 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Geography students with aid per year to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Geography & Cartography Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Colorado. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Located in Greeley, Colorado, this fairly large public school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geography students in 2019-2020.

University of Northern Colorado did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Northern Colorado is $15,714 for colorado bachelor’s degree geography students with aid.

Full University of Northern Colorado Geography & Cartography Report

#7 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Metropolitan State University of Denver landed the #3 spot on the list. MSU Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 19 bachelors’s geography degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Denver not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The yearly cost to attend MSU Denver is $14,257 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Geography students with aid.

Read full report on Geography & Cartography at MSU Denver

#4

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this fairly large public school handed out 52 degrees to qualified bachelors’s geography students in 2019-2020.

UCCS did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is $16,486 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Geography students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Fort Collins, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s geography degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Colorado State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado State is $18,668 for colorado bachelor’s degree geography students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 Colorado State Geography & Cartography Report

University of Colorado Boulder ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid list. CU - Boulder is a public institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 60 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. It costs about $21,680 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Geography students with aid per year to attend University of Colorado Boulder.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at CU - Boulder

#7

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

University of Denver did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Geography Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid ranking, coming in at #7. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s geography degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

DU also made our “Best Geography & Cartography Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $32,361 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Geography students with aid per year to attend DU.

The low student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.

Read more about Geography & Cartography at University of Denver

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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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