by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Outdoor Education is the 780th most popular major in the country with 265 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 21 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in outdoor education. That schools that top this list have a program in outdoor education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northland College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Northland is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Ashland, Wisconsin. It awarded 5 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large school located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan that handed out 16 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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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