2025 Best International Relations Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
196Bachelor's Degrees
Ranked #50 in popularity, international relations is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best International Relations Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 196 bachelor's degrees in international relations to qualified students.
Choosing a Great International Relations School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The international relations bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality international relations program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on international relations students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of international relations students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized international relations related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for international relations students working on their bachelor's degree.
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 International Relations Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study International Relations in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in international relations.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in International Relations
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).