by our College Data Analytics Team
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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Massachusetts, there were 12 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 2 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.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Massachusetts” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree outdoor ed students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Hampshire College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Gordon College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Wenham, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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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