Colorado contains 64 schools that offer medicine and health programs. Colorado College, the highest-ranking medicine and health school in CO, has a total student population of 2,032 and is the 92nd highest ranked school in America.
Of the 64 medicine and health schools in Colorado, only 5 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Platt College comes out as the most expensive ($41,227/yr), with Colorado Mountain College as the lowest recorded at only $6,996/yr.
Medicine and Health students from Colorado schools who go on to become medicine and health professionals, office administrators, massage therapists, trainers, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 271,710 people working as medical and health services managers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $90,970. Also, Registered nurses make on average $66,530 per year and there are about 2,583,770 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Colorado alone, there are 41,750 employed registered nurses earning an average yearly salary of $66,800. Medical and health services managers in this state earn $93,510/yr and there are 3,150 employed.
Also, within the medicine and health schools in Colorado, the average student population is 3,182 and average student-to-faculty ratio is 18 to 1. Aside from medicine and health, there are 2501 total degree (or certificate) programs in the state, with 3,103 people on average applying for a school. Undergraduate tuition costs are normally around $4,337, but can vary widely depending on the type of school.
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