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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

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 Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on 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

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Education at Trinity College

2

Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia

#5 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Gallaudet University landed the #2 spot on the list. Gallaudet University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 5 bachelors’s education 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.

Read full report on General Education at Gallaudet University

3

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in District of Columbia list. This medium-sized school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Education at Catholic University of America

• 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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