2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in the Rocky Mountains Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.

With 559,661 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $26,786 and had an average of $16,538 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 25,582 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,558 and $15,080 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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 liberal arts / sciences and humanities 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Adams State University

Alamosa, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$10,551 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Adams State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Adams State University is a small public school situated in Alamosa, Colorado. It awarded 12 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

Adams State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Adams State are $10,551, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities at Adams State

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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.

Credits

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