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2022 Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
13 Degrees Awarded
$8,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Housing is the 310th most popular major in the country with 911 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, housing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,433 and had an average of $24,194 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 13 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,200 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent housing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the housing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree housing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Housing (Income $0-$30k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brigham Young University - Provo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Brigham Young University - Provo is a large school located in Provo, Utah that handed out 13 bachelors’s housing degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree housing students whose families make $0-$30k list, BYU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Housing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend BYU is $8,834 for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree housing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.7% 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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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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