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2022 Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

4 Ranked Colleges
183 Degrees Awarded
$17,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 16,240 people earned their degree in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $30,827 and had an average of $22,562 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 193 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $18,941 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,261 and $25,672 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies in Colorado (With Aid)

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Metropolitan State University of Denver. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Metropolitan State University of Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 12 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.

MSU Denver not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for Metropolitan State University of Denver is $14,257 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students with aid.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies 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 #2 spot on the list. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is located in Denver, Colorado and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees to qualified students.

CU Anschutz also took the #3 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is $15,358 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies students with aid.

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%.

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#1 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 #3 for the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid. Colorado State is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 13 bachelors’s area, ethnic, culture, and gender studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. The estimated yearly cost for Colorado State University - Fort Collins is $18,668 for colorado bachelor’s degree area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. 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%.

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#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #4 spot on the list. CU - Boulder is a public institution located in Boulder, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 82 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also took the #2 spot in our “Best Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Colorado Boulder is $21,680 for Colorado Bachelor’s Degree Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies 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%.

Read full report on Area, Ethnic, Culture, & Gender Studies at University of Colorado Boulder

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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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