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Best Schools for Best in the Rocky Mountains Region
If you are not interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the best degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Schools in Best
No school ranked higher than University Of Colorado Boulder this year for best. Set in the city of Boulder, University Of Colorado Boulder is a very large public institution. About 74% of students finish within six years. There were roughly 94 best students who graduated with this degree at University Of Colorado Boulder in the most recent data year. Students who receive their best degree from University Of Colorado Boulder earn around $115,924 in the first couple years of their career. Students borrow a median of $20,373 to complete this degree.
Read more about the best program at University Of Colorado Boulder
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Notes and References
The ranking above is published by College Factual (MF_RANKING_2025), 2026 edition. The methodology weighs graduation rate, post-graduation earnings, cost, and program quality, drawn primarily from the U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS and College Scorecard).
Ranking method: College Major Top Ranked · 1 school evaluated.
- 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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