2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England 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 New England region, there were 50 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the New England Region

1

Sterling College
Craftsbury Common, Vermont

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sterling College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region list. Craftsbury Common, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s outdoor education degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Outdoor Education at Sterling College

2

Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern Vermont University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region. This small school is located in Johnson, Vermont, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at Northern Vermont University

3

Unity College
Unity, Maine

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Unity College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Unity, Maine, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s outdoor education students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at Unity

4

New England College
Henniker, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New England College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region. Located in Henniker, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor education students in 2020-2021.

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5

Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hampshire College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s outdoor education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at Hampshire

5

Gordon College
Wenham, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gordon College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the New England Region list. Gordon College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wenham, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Full Gordon College Outdoor Education Report

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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.

Credits

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