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Overview
Founded in 1989, Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine is located in a large city with a population of more than 250,000. It is in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood CO area.
Institutional Control
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a private for-profit organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (Accredited May 5, 2002 - present)
- The next accreditation review is scheduled for December 31, 2022.
Programs
Master's Degree offerings at Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Program Size (Completions)
Healthcare
Costs
Graduate general costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions.
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$540
$18,000
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Historic Annual Costs
This chart shows an inflation-adjusted view of the costs for general full-time graduate students over time. The shading reflects charges within your comparison group over the same time period. Private and public universities' charges are difficult to compare due to the in- and out-of-state structure of public universities, and therefore we only compare Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine to other private schools within your chosen comparison group.
Graduate Assistantships at Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Keep in mind that many graduate programs fund or partially fund their students through teaching, research, or other graduate assistantships. Some programs have provided graduate financial aid information that you can check for in the Programs section on this page. If we don't have that data, be sure to inquire with the academic department that interests you and do not assume you would have to pay full tuition for an academic graduate degree.
We believe that Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine does not offer assistantships to its graduate students. We calculated this percentage by dividing the number of graduate assistantships offered at Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine by its number of full-time-equivalent graduate students.
Graduate tuition, fees, books, and supplies over time
Research
The library is the backbone of academic learning and research
A rigorous academic program requires that students and faculty alike are engaging in independent research, and that activity requires strong library support. You can get some useful information here:
- How strong and how balanced between traditional physical books and easily-accessed (but expensive) electronic journals and other resources is this library?
- How much is this library borrowing from other libraries? The number of interlibrary loans received can indicate the school's commitment to getting the resources on-campus researchers need, and also of the research activity on campus.
- How big a resource is this library to other libraries? A large number of outgoing interlibrary loans speaks highly of the value of its content.
The presence of a library in and of itself is a good thing. Increasingly, libraries are comfortable and inviting spaces for individual and group study sessions. Librarians can be incredibly friendly guides in your quest to find materials that aid your learning.
Comparison of library resources per student
How do the per-student library resources at Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine compare to other schools?
Comparison of library loans per student
A small library could make up for a small collection by allowing a large number of interlibrary loans to be received. An excellent library can show its strength by its number of loans given.
Research funding: the best indicator of post-baccalaureate academic rigor
Any school that reports at least $150,000 in research and development expenditures in a given year should have submitted out the Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey to the National Science Foundation (NSF). We did not find HERD data for $Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, so there would at most modest graduate-level academic scholarship campus-wide.
Student Body
Study Types
About 84% of students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
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Online classes
Context: Student body size
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine enrolled 134 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is smaller than almost all the context schools.
Gratduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
Men
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Gratduate student race/origin
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine reports that 31% of students are minority, which is near the middle of the context schools. With no international students, this school has a lower percentage of international students than 99% of the context schools.
Race/Origin
White
Black
Hispanic
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American Indian
Not Reported
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Context: Percentage of women
With 82% women students, Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine has a higher percentage of women than 99% of context schools.
Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
Student age distribution
Graduate students' ages may vary a lot from program to program, and we can only provide this statistic as a total for all graduate programs. In general, if the colors in the time chart lean towards lighter turquoise, you can surmise that this school is attracting students soon after they've completed their undergraduate degrees.
Age range
22-24
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School Finances
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?
Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a private for-profit school, meaning that its annual goal is to make a profit for its shareholders. The other types of schools are public or not-for-profit, and profit is not a goal.
Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
Investment gains
Auxiliary revenue
Tuition and fees revenue
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Auxilliary expenses
Instructional expenses
Student services expenses
Academic & instructional support, student services expenses
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