2025 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Colorado

If you pursue a master's degree in nursing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for nursing students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 560 master's degrees in nursing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Nursing School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of nursing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to nursing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nursing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt nursing students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for nursing students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Nursing Schools

The nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Colorado.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Nursing in Colorado

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in nursing.

Top Colorado Schools for a Master's in Nursing

1

Regis University
Denver, CO

114 Annual Graduates

$111,284 Median Starting Salary

Regis University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nursing. Regis U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Denver.

Students who graduate with their master's from the nursing program report average early career income of $111,284.

More information about a master’s in nursing from Regis University

2

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, CO

167 Annual Graduates

$97,061 Median Starting Salary

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nursing. CU Anschutz is a fairly large public university located in the city of Denver.

Master's students who receive their degree from the nursing program make an average of $97,061 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a master’s in nursing from University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus

3

Denver College of Nursing
Denver, CO

17 Annual Graduates

$94,554 Median Starting Salary

Denver College of Nursing is a wonderful decision for students interested in a master's degree in nursing. Denver College of Nursing is a small private for-profit college located in the large city of Denver.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the nursing program earn an average of $94,554 in the first couple years of working.

More information about a master’s in nursing from Denver College of Nursing

4

Colorado State University - Pueblo
Pueblo, CO

32 Annual Graduates

$118,401 Median Starting Salary

Colorado State University - Pueblo is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nursing. Located in the medium-sized city of Pueblo, Colorado State University - Pueblo is a public university with a medium-sized student population.

Master's recipients from the nursing program at Colorado State University - Pueblo get $7,720 more than the typical graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a master’s in nursing from Colorado State University - Pueblo

5

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO

52 Annual Graduates

$107,063 Median Starting Salary

UCCS is a fairly large public university located in the city of Colorado Springs.

Soon after graduation, nursing master's recipients usually earn around $107,063 at the beginning of their careers.

More information about a master’s in nursing from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

6

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO

19 Annual Graduates

$109,066 Median Starting Salary

University of Northern Colorado is a medium-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Greeley.

Students who graduate with their master's from the nursing program report average early career income of $109,066.

More information about a master’s in nursing from University of Northern Colorado

Best Nursing Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	164	3,335
Idaho	96	56
Montana	90	14
Wyoming	53	11

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Rankings in Majors Related to Nursing

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Nursing Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Administration	326
Registered Nursing	120
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	74
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing	22
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	18

Most Popular Majors Related to Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services	560
Mental & Social Health Services	313
Public Health	244
Allied Health Professions	167
Communication Sciences	66
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	56
Medical Illustration & Informatics	36
Alternative Medicine & Systems	23
Medical Science	19
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences	18

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle. More about our data sources and methodologies.