2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$31,800
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 265 people earned their degree in outdoor education, making the major the 780th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 23 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular outdoor education programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree outdoor education students.
Top 1 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Prescott College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Outdoor Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s. Located in Prescott, Arizona, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor education students 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 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%.
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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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