Academics
Majors and faculty
The most popular major is Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew (18% of graduates). 14 students for every faculty member, more than at 58% of colleges. 94% of faculty are full-time. Spends $11,659 a year on instruction per student.
Most popular majors
160 bachelor's degrees, 2024–25 graduates
The top 5 programs account for 59% of graduates; 30 programs in 17 fields awarded at least one.
- Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew 49.010218% 28Graduates in this field earn $77,374 4 years out
- Business Administration and Management, General 52.020114% 22Graduates in this field earn $59,499 4 years out
- Psychology, General 42.010113% 21
- Biology/Biological Sciences, General 26.01019.4% 15Graduates in this field earn $60,305 4 years out
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness, General 31.05015.6% 9Graduates in this field earn $46,839 4 years out
Fastest-growing field: Transportation, 9.5% → 19% of graduates since 2014–15 (30 graduates in 2024–25).
Source:IPEDS Completions survey (degrees awarded by field), 2014–15 to 2024–25About the data(built 2026-10-12; CPI retrieved 2026-10-12)
Bachelor's degrees awarded July through June, by federal program name (), which can differ from what the college calls a major. A double major counts once, under the ; its other field is a . Earnings are College Scorecard's median for graduates of the program's broader field (), 4 years after completion; see Top-earning majors below.
Top-earning majors here
By earnings 4 years after completion
Air Transportation$77,374 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $41,588
4 years after completion$77,374National median: $85,825Below typicalMedian federal debt: $25,798 · 51 graduates, two most recent years combined
Biology, General$60,305 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $27,912
4 years after completion$60,305National median: $57,214Above typicalMedian federal debt: $23,250 · 49 graduates, two most recent years combined
Business Administration, Management and Operations$59,499 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $42,971
4 years after completion$59,499National median: $68,257Below typicalMedian federal debt: $25,565 · 40 graduates, two most recent years combined
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness$46,839 4 yrs out
1 year after completion: $30,025
4 years after completion$46,839National median: $54,562Below typicalMedian federal debt: $24,212 · 32 graduates, two most recent years combined
Psychology, General$29,910 1 yr out
1 year after completion: $29,910
4 years after completion: Too few graduates to report
Median federal debt: Too few graduates to report · 37 graduates, two most recent years combined
Bachelor's programs only, among graduates who received federal financial aid and were working (not enrolled in school) in the measurement year.
The college also reports 13 to 1 in its Common Data Set (767 students, 60 faculty).
Not the average class size: faculty also teach graduate students and do research, and large lectures can sit alongside small seminars.
Class sizes
72%
of classes have fewer than 20 students; 0% have 50 or more
| Students | sections | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2–9 | 84 | 35% |
| 10–19 | 92 | 38% |
| 20–29 | 43 | 18% |
| 30–39 | 13 | 5% |
| 40–49 | 10 | 4% |
| 50–99 | 1 | 0% |
| 100+ | 0 | 0% |
This counts class sections, not students: a lecture of 300 is one section, so a student is more likely to sit in a large class than the share of sections suggests. Labs and discussion sections are counted separately and left out here.
Programs & curriculum
- Accelerated program
- Double major
- Dual enrollment
- Independent study
- Internships
- Student-designed major
- Teacher certification
- Study abroad
- Undergraduate research
Requires coursework in arts, English composition, history, humanities, math, philosophy, a natural science, and social science.
$62,188
9-month equated, all ranks combined. Pay tracks local cost of living as much as a college's generosity.
Spending and endowment
Fiscal 2023–24. Compared only against other private nonprofit colleges: public and private colleges report finances on different accounting forms that aren't comparable.
Sources:IPEDS Completions survey (degrees awarded by field), 2024–25 graduates;College Scorecard Field of Study data, most recent release;IPEDS Fall Enrollment survey (part D), Fall 2024;IPEDS Salaries survey (SAL, instructional staff, all ranks), Fall 2024;College Scorecard, Fall 2024;IPEDS Finance survey, derived per-student figures, 2023–24;Rocky Mountain College Common Data Set 2025–26, Fall 2025;Rocky Mountain College Common Data Set 2025–26, 2025–26;IPEDS Institutional Characteristics survey (athletics, programs, services, religious affiliation), 2025–26About the data(retrieved 2026-10-12)
