by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Outdoor Education is the 780th most popular major in the country with 265 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 36 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 $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 5 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.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Lewis College landed the #1 spot on the list. Durango, Colorado is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s outdoor education degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Westminster College Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 5 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Outdoor Education at Westminster College Salt Lake
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colorado Christian University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Colorado Christian University is located in Lakewood, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Nampa, Idaho, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s outdoor education students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Read full report on Outdoor Education at Northwest Nazarene University
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Weber State University landed the #5 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ogden, Utah, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s outdoor education degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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