by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Education Major in Virginia” 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 41st most popular in the United States. 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 Virginia, there were 918 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,474 and $25,866 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Wesleyan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Virginia Beach, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s education degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory and Henry College landed the #3 spot on the list. Emory & Henry College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Emory, Virginia. It awarded 0 bachelors’s education degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Emory and Henry College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Randolph College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Education Major in Virginia. Randolph College is located in Lynchburg, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s education degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.
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