by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking.
Outdoor Education is the 313th most popular major in the country with 265 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, outdoor education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,786 and had an average of $18,614 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 15 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in outdoor education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in outdoor education.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rogue Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region list. Rogue Community College is a public institution located in Grants Pass, Oregon. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Outdoor Education at Rogue Community College
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. Hood Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Mt. Hood Community College is located in Gresham, Oregon and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 associates’s outdoor ed degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Outdoor Education at Mt. Hood Community College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Anchorage. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Far Western US Region. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s outdoor ed degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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