2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
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The Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in Colorado to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus the best value school in Colorado for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. CU Anschutz is a public institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 32 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at CU Anschutz are $24,342 per year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at CU Anschutz. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 75% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CU Anschutz is ranked #1 for overall quality in Colorado.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Colorado State University - Fort Collins helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Colorado. This large public school is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, and it awarded 15 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State are $29,043 per year.
Colorado State does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 67% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Colorado State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
CU - Boulder graduate students pay an average of $33,953 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since CU - Boulder does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 62% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
CU - Boulder not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.
Out of the 6 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Northern Colorado landed the # 4 spot on the list. This fairly large public school is located in Greeley, Colorado, and it awarded 33 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Northern Colorado are $22,379 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since University of Northern Colorado does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 81% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. This fairly large public school is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and it awarded 8 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UCCS graduate students pay an average of $25,584 in tuition and fees each year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UCCS does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 58% took at least some of their classes online.
UCCS also took the #5 spot in our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado rankings.
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University of Denver ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. Located in Denver, Colorado, the fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 37 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.
DU graduate students pay an average of $53,943 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that DU does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 84% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
DU also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #3.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.
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%.
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