Annual supply chain openings: about 1,950. Fastest growth to 2034: logisticians, +30.3%.
WUE discounts tuition in member states. 48 programs qualify.
Accredited Supply Chain Programs In Colorado
By level, Colorado has three bachelor’s and three master’s. In Colorado, AACSB accredits the schools of four programs; ACBSP accredits two directly.
Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs offers the most in Colorado: two master’s programs. Across Colorado, two listings name an online format.
Master's in Supply Chain Analytics (MS Supply Chain Analytics)
Boulder, CO
On campus
Fully online
STEM-designated
No GMAT or GRE required
AACSB-accredited business school
The only STEM-designated program among the 4 verified in Colorado
More about this program
Ten months is the fast track: the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business runs its master's in supply chain analytics as a full-time, in-person program that starts each July and covers three semesters. The same curriculum is also available online, on a slower part-time schedule finished over two years, mixing lecture-capture video with short online-plus modules and synchronous Zoom lab sessions held after 5 p.m. Either format runs 33 credits, with courses like Supply Chain Strategy, Procurement and Contracting, Transportation and Logistics, and a course on generative AI and LLMs in business, ending with an experiential projects course. It's a STEM-designated degree, and GMAT or GRE scores are optional. Leeds estimates total cost near $42,853 for Colorado residents in the in-person track and about $59,472 for out-of-state online students.
Master of Business Administration - Operations and Supply Chain Management
Colorado Springs, CO
On campus
Fully online
ACBSP-accredited program
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Sixteen credit hours make up this MBA's Operations and Supply Chain Management concentration, on top of a 32-credit business core, for 48 credits total. The concentration includes Operations Management, Operations Strategy, an MBA Capstone, and a course on logistics and supply chain inventory and distribution that covers warehousing, procurement, and contracting. Colorado Technical University runs the program online and at its Colorado Springs campus, in five-week course terms. Students without an undergraduate business degree complete two foundation courses first, unless they submit a GMAT score of 500 or above. For the eighth consecutive year, CTU says its online MBA has been ranked among the Best Online MBA Programs by U.S. News and World Report. The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs accredits the degree.
Highest six-year graduation rate of the 2 Colorado bachelor’s schools
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Colorado State University's College of Business offers supply chain management as a concentration within its Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. The degree totals 120 credits with at least 42 upper-division credits, and the concentration adds 24 credits of field-specific classes on top of the business core. Required courses are Advanced Supply Management, Advanced Service and Manufacturing Operations, Advanced Logistics, and Global Supply Chain Management, followed by four upper-division electives from a list that includes enterprise resource planning, negotiation, a supply chain practicum, and a study abroad course in Peru built around global supply chains. The college requires a 2.0 GPA in business and economics courses to graduate. The school says 62% of its supply chain students complete an internship while enrolled.
Lowest in-state tuition of the 2 Colorado bachelor’s programs
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Online, hybrid, or on campus, UCCS delivers this supply chain and analytics emphasis inside its 120-credit Business, BS degree. The emphasis itself runs 18 to 24 semester hours and requires courses such as Forecasting, Predicting and Planning, Applied Prescriptive Analytics, Managing Service Operations, and Global Logistic and Supply Chain Management, capped by a project-management course called Bridging Strategy and Tactics in Project Management. You round it out with an elective such as database management, data management and descriptive analytics, or a business internship. UCCS says graduates go on to roles like supply chain analyst, logistics coordinator, procurement specialist, and supply chain consultant across corporate, non-profit, government, and military employers. A 2.5 GPA in the emphasis courses and a 2.0 GPA overall are required to earn the credential.
Each card is read from the school’s own program page. The rank is the program’s place in this site’s national ranking of its kind; the highlighted lines compare it with the other verified programs in Colorado. A card marked “Not ranked” has no national rank to show: one doesn’t state enough of the figures its national ranking scores, and two are bachelor’s programs placed below the top 25 that the national bachelor’s list publishes.
Bachelor’s · Colorado Springs, CO · In person, Online
AACSB listing only
These programs appear in the AACSB or ACBSP listing. This site hasn’t verified their tuition, credits or length yet, so their cards carry the accreditor’s record only.
What A Supply Chain Degree Costs In Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder is the Colorado graduate program here with a stated price, $59,074 in total.
For a bachelor’s, University of Colorado Colorado Springs reports the lowest in-state rate in Colorado, $10,438 a year, and Colorado State University the highest, $13,009.
Graduate figures are read from each school’s own program page.
Master’s Programs In Colorado
Master’s in supply chain management programs in Colorado, by total tuition
Tuition and fees are per year for the whole school, from IPEDS 2023-24; graduation rates are six-year, whole school.
In-State And Out-Of-State Tuition In Colorado
Two Colorado public universities report higher rates for nonresidents; the gap runs from $13,517 a year at University of Colorado Colorado Springs to $20,756 at Colorado State University. For a Colorado student, residency at Colorado State University is worth about $83,024 over four years.
One graduate program in Colorado states its residency terms in the tuition figure itself:
University of Colorado at Boulder: Total as stated by the school (non-resident tuition and required student fees for 3 semesters, 33 credits, in the full-time in-person program; Colorado resident total is $42,853 and international total is $59,277 on the same basis), campus
Tuition Discounts For Colorado Residents
Colorado belongs to one regional tuition exchange. WUE is open to Colorado residents for undergraduate study. Besides Colorado, nine member states have 48 programs, 18 of them in California.
If the program you want isn’t offered in Colorado, an exchange can keep a campus over the border near Colorado’s in-state cost. Before applying, Colorado students should ask each school whether WUE covers its degree.
Western Undergraduate Exchange, run by WICHE: no more than 150% of the school’s resident tuition at participating public colleges.
Public Universities In Other WUE States
Supply chain bachelor’s programs at public universities in other WUE states, open to Colorado students
Public universities in other member states with a supply chain bachelor’s in this site’s ranking, cheapest nonresident rate first; 5 more are on the bachelor’s ranking. Tuition and fees per year, whole school, IPEDS 2023-24. Participation is the school’s choice, program by program; the exchange rate, where offered, sits between the two figures.
Supply Chain Programs Near Colorado
Colorado borders Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Utah, Kansas, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together Colorado’s neighbors have 28 accredited programs, 7 of them in Arizona, more than Colorado has itself.
Next door, the lowest stated graduate total is $21,300; in Colorado it is $59,074. Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming share a tuition exchange with Colorado.
Accredited supply chain programs in the states bordering Colorado
Note: A blank cell means that state has no program with a verified figure.
Graduate totals are read from each school’s program page; bachelor’s rates are IPEDS 2023-24, per year, for the whole school.
Studying Supply Chain Management Online In Colorado
Two of the six Colorado directory listings name an online format, so some Colorado students can skip the commute to an in-state school. Colorado’s University of Colorado at Boulder appears in the online master’s ranking.
Residency can still matter online for a Colorado student: Colorado State University charges Colorado’s nonresidents $20,756 more a year on campus; a Colorado student should check whether its online rate differs.
In Colorado, purchasing managers earn the highest median of these occupations, $171,250. Logisticians in Colorado earn a median of $96,090, above the $82,320 national figure; Colorado’s lowest-paid tenth earn under $63,060 and the top tenth over $145,350.
For transportation, storage and distribution managers in Colorado, the occupation that includes supply chain managers, the median is $132,610, with the 10th percentile at $80,160 and the 90th at $213,580. On the procurement side, Colorado’s purchasing managers earn a median of $171,250 and its buyers and purchasing agents $83,590, across 10,080 jobs.
Supply chain occupations in Colorado: jobs and median pay
BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation. BLS publishes no separate wage for customs brokers. They are counted inside compliance officers, an occupation that spans government, finance and healthcare, so figures for the whole occupation describe far more than customs work.
Pay And The Cost Of Living In Colorado
At 103.1 for 2024, Colorado’s BEA price level sits 3.1% over the U.S. average, so Colorado’s $96,090 logistician median buys what $93,244 would nationally. Adjusted that way, Colorado ranks tenth of 51 for logistician pay.
Supply Chain Pay By Metro Area In Colorado
Colorado Springs, CO pays Colorado’s highest logistician median, $103,480, $7,390 above the Colorado figure.
Median pay for logisticians and transportation, storage and distribution managers in Colorado metro areas
Note: A blank cell means BLS publishes no estimate for that metro.
Colorado Pay Against Its Neighbors
New Mexico pays logisticians the most here, $98,430; Colorado is second of 8 at $96,090. Adjusted for prices, New Mexico leads at $106,743, and Colorado places third.
Logistician and manager pay in Colorado and the states it borders
Note: Price-adjusted pay divides the median by BEA’s state price level. A blank cell means no estimate.
Where The Supply Chain Jobs Are In Colorado
Colorado’s largest by headcount: buyers and purchasing agents (10,080), then production, planning, and expediting clerks (7,800) and logisticians (4,490). Colorado holds 1% of U.S. jobs in the managers’ occupation, and Colorado logisticians are 1.8% of the U.S. total.
The managers’ occupation has 0.805 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado (location quotient 0.57), ranking Colorado 38th of 50 and well below the national share. In Colorado, logisticians hold 1.563 jobs per 1,000 (0.97 quotient, 21st).
Compliance officers and operations research analysts are left out of this count: both occupations reach well beyond supply chain work. “The managers’ occupation” is transportation, storage and distribution managers. A location quotient of 1.0 means the occupation’s share of jobs matches the national share.
Colorado Logistics Industries
County Business Patterns counts 111,004 transportation and warehousing jobs at 4,336 Colorado employers in 2023, plus 105,318 jobs in Colorado’s wholesale trade. By that count Colorado ranks 19th of 51 for transportation and warehousing employment.
Within it, air transportation is Colorado’s largest freight line, 26,174 jobs, followed by couriers and delivery at 25,161. Warehousing and storage employs 20,383 people at 317 Colorado sites, 25th among the states. The best-paid of these lines in Colorado is air transportation, averaging $111,613 a year per job.
Logistics and wholesale industries in Colorado: jobs, employers and average pay, 2023
Note: A blank cell means the Census Bureau withholds that figure to protect individual employers.
County Business Patterns 2023 (Census Bureau): employer establishments, mid-March employment and annual payroll; average pay is payroll divided by jobs. Rail is outside its scope. Shares compare with the 50 states and DC.
Supply Chain Job Growth In Colorado Through 2034
In Colorado, logisticians grow fastest: +30.3%, from 4,600 jobs in 2024 to 6,000 in 2034, per Colorado’s labor market office (U.S.: +16.7%). The slowest in Colorado is industrial production managers, at +5.8%.
Across its six core supply chain occupations, Colorado expects about 1,950 openings a year. All six grow faster in Colorado than across the U.S.
Projected employment for supply chain occupations in Colorado, 2024 to 2034
Long-term projections from each state’s labor market information office, published through Projections Central (cdle.colorado.gov). Openings count new jobs plus workers who retire or change careers. The core occupations leave out compliance officers and operations research analysts.
Supply Chain Occupations In Colorado, One By One
Transportation, Storage, And Distribution Managers In Colorado
Colorado has 2,310 transportation, storage and distribution managers. Their median, $132,610, puts Colorado third of 52. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $102,490 to $167,200, and the outer tenths reach $80,160 and $213,580. At 0.805 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.57 (38th). Colorado’s labor office projects +13.4% to 2034, about 230 openings a year.
Logisticians In Colorado
Colorado has 4,490 logisticians. Their median, $96,090, puts Colorado ninth of 52. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $77,390 to $121,850, and the outer tenths reach $63,060 and $145,350. At 1.563 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.97 (21st). Colorado’s labor office projects +30.3% to 2034, about 590 openings a year.
Purchasing Managers In Colorado
Colorado has 1,320 purchasing managers. Their median, $171,250, puts Colorado third of 51. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $141,190 to $209,740, and the outer tenths reach $122,790 and $247,610. At 0.46 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.85 (22nd). Colorado’s labor office projects +12.5% to 2034, about 110 openings a year.
Buyers And Purchasing Agents In Colorado
Colorado has 10,080 buyers and purchasing agents. Their median, $83,590, puts Colorado eighth of 52. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $66,500 to $105,390, and the outer tenths reach $54,990 and $135,470. At 3.506 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 1.11 (12th).
Operations Research Analysts In Colorado
Colorado has 770 operations research analysts. Their median, $129,880, puts Colorado first of 48. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $102,710 to $160,220, and the outer tenths reach $79,570 and $182,530. At 0.269 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.39 (40th). Colorado’s labor office projects +30.9% to 2034, about 90 openings a year.
Industrial Production Managers In Colorado
Colorado has 1,730 industrial production managers. Their median, $141,020, puts Colorado seventh of 51. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $108,170 to $189,300, and the outer tenths reach $86,460 and $230,410. At 0.602 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.38 (48th). Colorado’s labor office projects +5.8% to 2034, about 120 openings a year.
Cargo And Freight Agents In Colorado
Colorado has 850 cargo and freight agents. Their median, $51,390, puts Colorado 21st of 49. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $48,220 to $60,300, and the outer tenths reach $43,940 and $72,760. At 0.297 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 0.47 (40th). Colorado’s labor office projects +21.3% to 2034, about 110 openings a year.
Production, Planning, And Expediting Clerks In Colorado
Colorado has 7,800 production, planning, and expediting clerks. Their median, $63,980, puts Colorado fifth of 52. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $53,830 to $78,470, and the outer tenths reach $46,720 and $91,530. At 2.713 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 1.08 (13th). Colorado’s labor office projects +15% to 2034, about 790 openings a year.
Compliance Officers In Colorado
Colorado has 7,740 compliance officers. Their median, $82,450, puts Colorado 18th of 52. The middle half of Colorado’s pay for this occupation runs from $68,120 to $109,980, and the outer tenths reach $57,990 and $133,520. At 2.694 jobs per 1,000 in Colorado, its location quotient is 1 (23rd). Colorado’s labor office projects +10.6% to 2034, about 720 openings a year.
Pay and percentiles from BLS OEWS (May 2025); state ranks count the states, DC and Puerto Rico with an estimate. Each occupation’s salary page carries its national, state and metro detail.
Colorado Freight And The Supply Chain Economy
Counting shipments that start, end or stay in Colorado, the Freight Analysis Framework estimates 324.6 million tons of freight worth $418.0 billion moved in 2024. That ranks Colorado 29th of 51 by value and 30th by weight, and 46.9% of its tonnage never leaves the state.
By value, mixed freight and electronics lead Colorado’s freight. By weight, Colorado moves mostly natural gas and fossil products and crude petroleum. In Colorado, trucks carry 58% of the tons, pipelines 30.5% and rail 8.5%.
Colorado’s largest domestic trading partner is California ($27.2 billion, both directions), then Texas and Wyoming. Colorado exported $10.5 billion of freight, mostly to Eastern Asia, and imported $16.4 billion, mostly from Canada. The framework forecasts Colorado’s tonnage to grow 75.9% by 2050 and its real value 109.4%.
The five largest commodities by value in Colorado freight, 2024
Freight Analysis Framework 5.7.1 (BTS and FHWA): 2024 estimates in current dollars; the 2050 value forecast is in constant 2017 dollars. Trading-partner values combine freight in both directions.
Colorado Metro Areas With Supply Chain Programs
Colorado’s programs fall across three Census areas, led by Colorado Springs, CO with two schools.
Colorado Springs, CO (metro area): Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs and University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Boulder, CO (metro area): University of Colorado at Boulder.
Fort Collins-Loveland, CO (metro area): Colorado State University.
Areas are Census Bureau CBSAs (July 2023), assigned by each school’s county.
Each city page lists the programs with a campus in the city itself (where there is none, the nearest in its metro, and the page says “near”), with pay for every supply chain occupation across the metro. A metro that crosses a state line is listed under each state it reaches.
Colorado Programs In The National Rankings
Master’s ranking: one of the 58 programs is in Colorado, and the best placed is University of Colorado at Boulder at number 40.
MBA ranking: one of the 38 programs is in Colorado.
Start with the level: Colorado’s six listings split into three bachelor’s and three master’s.
Stay in state if you can. At Colorado State University, a Colorado resident pays $13,009 a year against $33,765 for everyone else.
Ask about WUE before ruling out a school outside Colorado; Colorado’s residents can use it for undergraduate study.
Check the format line by line: two of Colorado’s six directory listings name an online option, and University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado Technical University state an online graduate format on their own page.
Match the program to where you’ll work: in Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO pays logisticians most, $103,480 against $96,090 statewide.
Look at demand too: in Colorado, logisticians grow fastest, +30.3% by 2034.
FAQ
How Many Supply Chain Management Programs Are In Colorado?
This directory lists six accredited supply chain programs in Colorado, at four schools: three bachelor’s and three master’s.
How Much Does A Supply Chain Management Degree Cost In Colorado?
University of Colorado at Boulder states a graduate total of $59,074. For a bachelor’s in Colorado, in-state tuition and fees per year run from $10,438 to $13,009, as schools report them to IPEDS.
What Do Supply Chain Managers Make In Colorado?
In Colorado, the occupation counting supply chain managers pays a median of $132,610 across 2,310 jobs, against $107,230 nationally.
How Much Do Logisticians Make In Colorado?
The logistician median in Colorado is $96,090, across 4,490 jobs. At Colorado’s price level of 103.1 (U.S. = 100), it buys what $93,244 would nationally.
Which Colorado Metro Area Pays Supply Chain Workers The Most?
Colorado Springs, CO has Colorado’s highest logistician median, $103,480. Fort Collins-Loveland, CO pays Colorado’s managers’ occupation the most, $144,910.
How Does Colorado Supply Chain Pay Compare With Neighboring States?
Of the 8 states compared with Colorado, New Mexico pays logisticians the most, $98,430; Colorado ranks second at $96,090. After adjusting for prices, Colorado ranks third.
How Many Logistics Jobs Are In Colorado?
Census County Business Patterns counts 111,004 transportation and warehousing jobs in Colorado for 2023, 20,383 of them in warehousing and storage. BLS counts 4,490 Colorado logisticians, the planners who run those flows.
Which Supply Chain Job Pays The Most In Colorado?
Purchasing managers earn Colorado’s highest supply chain median, $171,250, then industrial production managers at $141,020.
Is Supply Chain Management In Demand In Colorado?
Colorado’s labor market office expects logisticians in Colorado to grow 30.3% by 2034, against 16.7% nationally, and Colorado expects about 1,950 openings a year across Colorado’s six core supply chain occupations.
Can Colorado Residents Get A Tuition Discount At Out-Of-State Schools?
Yes. Colorado is in WUE. WUE reaches 48 accredited programs outside Colorado and covers undergraduate study for Colorado residents. Before applying, Colorado students should ask whether WUE covers the program.
Can You Study Supply Chain Management Online In Colorado?
Two of the six Colorado programs list an online format in the accreditor’s record. Of Colorado’s graduate programs with verified costs, University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado Technical University state an online format.
