2022 Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Outdoor Education is the 808th most popular major in the country with 255 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 41 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,111 and $23,874 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in outdoor education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent outdoor education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the outdoor education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region bachelor’s degree outdoor education students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

Weber State University

Ogden, Utah

#1 in overall quality

$11,968 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Weber State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Weber State University is a public institution located in Ogden, Utah. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

WSU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Outdoor Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. It costs about $11,968 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Outdoor Education students per year to attend WSU.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at WSU

#2

Fort Lewis College

Durango, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$16,274 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Outdoor Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Lewis College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Durango, Colorado, this small public school handed out 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor education students in 2019-2020.

FLC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Outdoor Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Fort Lewis College is $16,274 for Rocky Mountains Region Bachelor’s Degree Outdoor Education students.

Full FLC Outdoor Education Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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