2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky

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 Kentucky” 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 Kentucky, there were 5 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in Kentucky

1

Asbury University
Wilmore, Kentucky

#13 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Asbury University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky list. Asbury is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wilmore, Kentucky. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Outdoor Education at Asbury University

2

Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky

#8 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Murray State University is a medium-sized public school situated in Murray, Kentucky. It awarded 3 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at Murray State

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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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