Bachelor's · Denver, Colorado
Is Communication and Media Studies at Colorado State University Global worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $63,768
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $67,394
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $78k (likely $75k – $105k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.9 years (likely 3.7–6.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$68k (likely −$154k – $10k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $179k (likely $47k – $321k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 26%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Colorado State University Global
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$113,193
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$102,672
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$102,553
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$102,553
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$102,355
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Graduate certificate)$95,673
- Management Information Systems and Services (Bachelor's)$95,518
- Health and Medical Administrative Services (Master's)$94,688
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$94,130
- International Business (Master's)$92,506
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$91,204
- Human Resources Management and Services (Master's)$90,296
Communication and Media Studies at other schools in Colorado
- University of Colorado Boulder$66,623
- University of Denver$63,374
- University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus$62,882
- Colorado State University-Fort Collins$61,434
- University of Northern Colorado$56,520
- Colorado Mesa University$54,717
- Colorado State University Pueblo$51,721
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs$50,692
- Western Colorado University$47,426
- Regis University$46,341