2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska

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General Education is the 31st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Nebraska, there were 59 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,581 and $29,351 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in general education. That schools that top this list have a program in general education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska bachelor’s degree general education students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Nebraska

1

Midland University
Fremont, Nebraska

#15 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Midland University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska list. This small school is located in Fremont, Nebraska, and it awarded 44 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Midland U General Education Report

2

Peru State College
Peru, Nebraska

#18 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Peru State College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska list. This small school is located in Peru, Nebraska, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Peru State General Education Report

3

Bellevue University
Bellevue, Nebraska

#4 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska list. Bellevue University is located in Bellevue, Nebraska and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on General Education at Bellevue University

4

Concordia University, Nebraska
Seward, Nebraska

#3 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Nebraska landed the #4 spot on the list. Concordia University, Nebraska is located in Seward, Nebraska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Education at Concordia University, Nebraska

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in the Plains States 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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