2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in Louisiana

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Athletic Training is the 187th most popular major in the country with 3,767 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Louisiana, there were 20 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in athletic training. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their athletic training program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana bachelor’s degree athletic trainer students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in Louisiana

1

Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, Louisiana

#12 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Louisiana University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana list. Located in Hammond, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s athletic trainer students in 2020-2021.

Full Southeastern Athletic Training Report

2

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this large public school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s athletic trainer students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Athletic Training Report

3

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in Louisiana. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is located in Lafayette, Louisiana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s athletic trainer degrees to qualified students.

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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.