2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Public Health is the 27th most popular major in the country with 38,020 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, public health graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $41,740 and had an average of $35,895 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 346 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,467 and $35,628 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 203 public health graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in public health. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent public health programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the public health program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $48-$75k) in Colorado

#1

Colorado State University - Fort Collins

Fort Collins, Colorado

$28,055 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #1 spot on the list. Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 3 masters’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

Colorado State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Public Health Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado State are $28,055.

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#2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$23,915 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,439 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public Health Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Making $48-$75k list. University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is a large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 200 masters’s public health degrees in 2019-2020.

CU Anschutz did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Public Health Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus are $23,915, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Public Health (Income $48-$75k)

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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