Bachelor's · Denver, Colorado
Is Accounting and Related Services 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 3.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $67,525
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $81,005
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $26,750
- 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
- $37k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CO
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 3.6 years (likely 3.1–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $68k (likely −$16k – $126k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $516k (likely $381k – $660k)
- 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 / ≤ 5%
- 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
Accounting and Related Services at other schools in Colorado
- University of Denver$96,903
- Metropolitan State University of Denver$73,698
- Regis University$73,054
- Colorado Mesa University$71,577
- Colorado Christian University$64,060
- Western Colorado University$63,922
- Colorado State University Pueblo$59,567
- Fort Lewis College$59,298
- Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs$57,068