2023 Most Focused Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$31,800
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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 Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 23 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their outdoor education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region outdoor education students.
Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prescott College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest Region list. Prescott, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s outdoor education degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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
- *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.
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