by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Georgia” 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 Georgia, there were 16 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 $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in outdoor education. That schools that top this list have a program in outdoor education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Georgia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Georgia”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Young Harris College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Georgia list. Young Harris College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Young Harris, Georgia. It awarded 9 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Toccoa Falls College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
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