by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking.
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 the Southeast region, there were 78 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in outdoor education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular outdoor education programs in the United States.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 southeast region bachelor’s degree outdoor ed students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brevard College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Brevard College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Brevard, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Young Harris College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Young Harris, Georgia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Montreat College landed the #4 spot on the list. Montreat College is a small school located in Montreat, North Carolina that handed out 7 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Toccoa Falls College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #6, John Brown University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Siloam Springs, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Murray State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s ranking. Murray State is a public institution located in Murray, Kentucky. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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With a ranking of #8, Asbury University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s list. Asbury is located in Wilmore, Kentucky and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees to qualified students.
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