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2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

13 Colleges
$26,901 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$44,293 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Public Health School for You

Public Health is the #16 most popular major in the country with 19,473 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 13 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for public health students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for public health majors pursuing a .

Top 10 Best Public Health Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Brigham Young University - Provo the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for public health students. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Provo.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at BYU are $6,120 per year.

BYU also made our Best Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, coming in at #3.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Montana Technological University is a great value for public health students. Located in the remote town of Butte, Montana Tech is a public college with a small student population.

Montana Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $22,509 in tuition and fees each year.

Montana Tech also took the #2 spot in our Best Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.

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#3

Regis University

Denver, CO

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regis University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the city of Denver, Regis U is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

Regis U undergraduate students pay an average of $39,610 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

Westminster College Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Westminster College Utah is a great value for public health students. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Westminster College Salt Lake are $38,680 per year.

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#5

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wyoming. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the remote town of Laramie, UW is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UW are $16,957 per year.

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Utah State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. USU is a very large public school located in the city of Logan.

USU undergraduate students pay an average of $23,435 in tuition and fees each year.

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Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value public health programs. Colorado State is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Colorado State are $31,470 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Colorado State is ranked #5 for overall quality for public health in the Rocky Mountains Region .

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Weber State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the city of Ogden, WSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $16,644 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Public Health at Weber State University

University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for public health students. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the large 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 undergraduate student at CU Anschutz are $26,376 a year.

Full Public Health at University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus Report

#10

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

University of Utah ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Public Health Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at U of U are $28,345 per year.

Full Public Health at University of Utah Report

Best Public Health Colleges by State

Explore the best public health colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 197
Utah 178
Idaho 29
Montana 90
Wyoming 25

Public Health is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Public Health

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 66,964
Medicine 28,629
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 24,774
Health & Medical Administrative Services 17,335
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences 16,952

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 13 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Article 25 Flickr.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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