2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

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International/Globalization Studies is the 112th most popular major in the country with 7,368 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 641 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in international/globalization studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful international/globalization studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree global studies students.

Top 4 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

#4 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. University of Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 19 masters’s global studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International/Globalization Studies at DU

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s global studies degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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3

University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming

#16 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wyoming. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. University of Wyoming is a public institution located in Laramie, Wyoming. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International/Globalization Studies at UW

4

The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Global Studies Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Master’s list. The University of Montana is a fairly large school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 2 masters’s global studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on International/Globalization Studies at The University of Montana

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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