2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 11 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in outdoor education. 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree outdoor ed students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Adirondack Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Adirondack Community College is located in Queensbury, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s outdoor ed degrees to qualified students.

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2

Cecil College
North East, Maryland

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cecil College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in North East, Maryland, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.

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2

SUNY Delhi
Delhi, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Delhi landed the #2 spot on the list. SUNY Delhi is a small school located in Delhi, New York that handed out 0 associates’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education

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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