2025 Best Natural Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
2Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
30Master's Degrees
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Master's Degree in natural sciences. It is ranked #260 out of 343 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Natural Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 30 master's degrees in natural sciences to qualified students.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to natural sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other natural sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for natural sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized natural sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for natural sciences students working on their master'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 Natural Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
