2022 Best Value Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s 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 “Best Value Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Art Studies is the 52nd most popular major in the country with 19,826 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Colorado, there were 27 art studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 art studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in art studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality art studies 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 art studies 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 Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado bachelor’s degree art studies students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Art Studies in Colorado

#1

Colorado Mesa University

Grand Junction, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$15,569 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Mesa University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado list. Grand Junction, Colorado is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s art studies degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our colorado bachelor’s degree art studies students list, Colorado Mesa has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Art Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colorado Mesa University is $15,569 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Art Studies students.

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#2

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$32,361 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Art Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado list. Denver, Colorado is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s art studies degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at DU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Art Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Denver is $32,361 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Art Studies students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.

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