2021 Best Affordable Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region for Students from Jamaica

It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for international students. College Factual has developed its Best Value Colleges for Jamaican Students in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for Jamaican students in the Rocky Mountains Region. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the total number of international students at the school and the school's overall value.

Find out more about our ranking methodology.

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Top Value Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region for Students from Jamaica

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Brigham Young University - Idaho
Rexburg, ID

$4,416 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

17.5% International Students

Brigham Young University - Idaho tops this year’s ranking as the best value school for Jamaican students in the Rocky Mountains Region. Brigham Young University - Idaho is a large private not-for-profit school located in Rexburg, Idaho that handed out 5,977 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Of the total number of students at the school, 17.5% are international. The top three countries sending students to study at BYU - I are Canada, Mexico, and Brazil. Out-of-state tuition and fees for undergraduates at BYU - I is about $4,416 a year, on average.

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2

Adams State University
Alamosa, CO

$17,933 Avg Undergrad Tuition & Fees

0.7% International Students

A rank of #2 on our list means Adams State University is a great place for Jamaican students in the Rocky Mountains Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Adams State is a small public school situated in Alamosa, Colorado. It awarded 317 bachelor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Around 0.7% of the total student population at the school is international. Students studying at Adams State come from such countries as United Kingdom, Canada, and Jamaica. Yearly tuition and fees (out-of-state) for undergraduates at Adams State runs, on average, about $17,933. Graduate students pay around $10,896 a year in average tuition and fees.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.