How Colorado Colleges And Universities Fare On US News & World Report’s Online Rankings

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.