2023 Best Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
It's not easy to decide which healthcare 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 and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 9 schools in Colorado to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for healthcare students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Colorado
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Our 2023 rankings named University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus the best value school in Colorado for healthcare students working on their doctor’s degree. CU Anschutz is a public institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 601 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
CU Anschutz graduate students pay an average of $24,342 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that CU Anschutz does offer online graduate classes in some areas. During the 2019-2020 year, about 75% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
CU Anschutz also made our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #3.
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Out of the 9 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the # 2 spot on the list. CU - Boulder is a large public school situated in Boulder, Colorado. It awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CU - Boulder are $33,953 a year.
CU - Boulder does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 62% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CU - Boulder is ranked #1 for overall quality in Colorado.
Out of the 9 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s value ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the # 3 spot on the list. Colorado State is a public institution located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Colorado State graduate students pay an average of $29,043 in tuition and fees each year.
Colorado State does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 67% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Colorado State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado Mesa University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list. This medium-sized public school is located in Grand Junction, Colorado, and it awarded 2 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado Mesa are $14,535 per year.
Online graduate courses are available at Colorado Mesa, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 67% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Out of the 9 schools in Colorado that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Northern Colorado landed the # 5 spot on the list. University of Northern Colorado is located in Greeley, Colorado and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Northern Colorado are $22,379 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since University of Northern Colorado does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2019-2020 about 81% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
University of Northern Colorado not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.
Regis University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. Regis U is a private not-for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 160 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Regis U are $15,079 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Regis U. During the 2019-2020 year, about 69% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Regis U also made our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list, coming in at #4.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is a fairly large public school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 9 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
UCCS graduate students pay an average of $25,584 in tuition and fees each year.
UCCS does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 58% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value places for healthcare students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the large private for-profit school handed out 2 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs graduate students pay an average of $14,312 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs. During the 2019-2020 year, about 100% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Colorado Christian University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado ranking. CCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lakewood, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
CCU graduate students pay an average of $14,626 in tuition and fees each year.
Online graduate courses are available at CCU, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 95% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 9 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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