2023 Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s

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

Across Arkansas, there were 133 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 82 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,130 and $24,615 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in general education. To top this list, a school must have a successful general education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 5 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Arkansas

1

University of Arkansas at Monticello
Monticello, Arkansas

#23 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas at Monticello. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s. University of Arkansas at Monticello is located in Monticello, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 46 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Education at UAM

2

University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s list. UARK is a large school located in Fayetteville, Arkansas that handed out 24 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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3

Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

#2 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harding University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s list. Harding is located in Searcy, Arkansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Education at Harding

4

Ouachita Baptist University
Arkadelphia, Arkansas

#6 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ouachita Baptist University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general education students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Education at Ouachita Baptist University

5

Lyon College
Batesville, Arkansas

Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended General Education Major in Arkansas for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Lyon College landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in Batesville, Arkansas, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lyon General Education Report

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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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