2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 265 people earned their degree in outdoor education, making the major the 313th most popular in the United States. 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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in outdoor education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in outdoor education.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

SUNY Cortland
Cortland, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Cortland. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. SUNY Cortland is a medium-sized school located in Cortland, New York that handed out 8 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Outdoor Education at SUNY Cortland

2

Salisbury University
Salisbury, Maryland

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salisbury University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Salisbury, Maryland, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Salisbury Outdoor Education Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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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