this year's ranking by U.S. News & World Report.
The magazine considers four factors: faculty credentials and training, students services and technology, student engagement and admission selectivity.
Here's how the state's institutions of higher education fared out of more than 1,200 online degree programs nationwide:
Online Bachelor's Programs
#11 Colorado State University, Global Campus
#20 University of Denver
#86 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
MBA Programs
#41 University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
#50 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Non-MBA Graduate Business
#21 University of Denver
#37 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
#53 Colorado State University -- Global Campus
#82 Regis University
#91 Colorado Technical University
Graduate Criminal Justice
#12 University of Colorado Denver
#23 Colorado Technical University
#28 Regis University
Graduate Education
#36 University of Colorado Denver
#48 University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
#89 Colorado State University -- Global Campus
#130 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
#136 University of Northern Colorado
Graduate Engineering
#58 University of Colorado Boulder
#59 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Graduate IT
#18 Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs
#25 University of Denver
#30 Colorado State University, Fort Collins
#34 Regis University
Graduate Nursing
#13 University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
#82 Regis University
#98 American Sentinel University
The magazine also ranks traditional college programs. That list was last updated in September.
