2023 Best Value Area Studies Schools in Colorado

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Area Studies School for You

In 2020-2021, 3 degrees and certificates were awarded to area studies students who went to a Colorado college or university. This makes it the #174 most popular major in the state.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Area Studies Schools in Colorado ranking.

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.

Check out the area studies programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Area Studies School

#1

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, CO

3 Degrees

#3 in Quality in Colorado

$12,610 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Colorado Boulder to be the best value school for area studies students who want to pursue a degree in Colorado. Located in the medium-sized city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at CU - Boulder are $12,610 a year.

CU - Boulder also took the #3 spot in our Best Area Studies Schools in Colorado rankings.

Read full report on Area Studies at University of Colorado Boulder

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Majors Related to Area Studies

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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