2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 29,810 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 79 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general education.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in District of Columbia

1

Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trinity Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia list. Trinity Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on General Education at Trinity Washington University

2

Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia

#5 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gallaudet University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia list. Gallaudet is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Gallaudet General Education Report

3

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia. CUA is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Education at CUA

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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