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2023 Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

8 Colleges
$30,615 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$83,099 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 31,701 management sciences and quantitative methods students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #7 most popular in the country.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for management science students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Check out the management science master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Management Sciences & Methods

Our 2023 rankings named Colorado State University - Global Campus the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for management sciences and quantitative methods students working on their master’s degree. Colorado State University - Global Campus is a large public school located in the city of Greenwood Village.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State University - Global Campus are $9,000 per year.

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Out of the 8 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Denver, CU Anschutz is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CU Anschutz are $24,342 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Colorado State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State are $29,043 per year.

Colorado State also made our Best Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, coming in at #5.

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#4

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U of U are $25,705 per year.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Utah State University is a great value for management sciences and quantitative methods students working on their master’s degree. USU is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Logan.

USU graduate students pay an average of $23,225 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Colorado Boulder came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public school with a fairly large student population.

CU - Boulder graduate students pay an average of $33,953 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, CU - Boulder also did well on our Best Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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The University of Montana came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Located in the city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a large student population.

UM graduate students pay an average of $24,096 in tuition and fees each year.

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#8

University of Denver

Denver, CO

University of Denver came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Management Sciences & Methods Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

DU graduate students pay an average of $53,943 in tuition and fees each year.

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Best Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods Colleges by State

Explore the best management sciences and quantitative methods schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 346
Utah 238
Montana 12

Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Management Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 131,555
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137
Finance & Financial Management 5,784

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 8 schools only.

  • 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).
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