by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 North Carolina, there were 41 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,368 and $25,940 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in North Carolina” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 North Carolina” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in North Carolina”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Brevard College landed the #1 spot on the list. Brevard College is located in Brevard, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montreat College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in North Carolina list. Located in Montreat, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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