2023 Most Popular Colleges for Outdoor Education in New Hampshire

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in New Hampshire” ranking - to help you make that 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 New Hampshire, there were 10 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in New Hampshire” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in New Hampshire

The colleges and universities below are the best for new hampshire outdoor ed students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Outdoor Education in New Hampshire

1

Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire

#9 overall quality in New Hampshire

$40,810 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,048 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Plymouth State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in New Hampshire list. Plymouth, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s outdoor ed degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at Plymouth State

2

New England College
Henniker, New Hampshire

#10 overall quality in New Hampshire

$48,196 Average Early-Career Earnings

$33,512 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Outdoor Ed Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, New England College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Henniker, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified ’s outdoor ed students in 2020-2021.

Full NEC Outdoor Education Report

• Most Popular Colleges for Outdoor Education in the New England Region
• Most Popular Colleges for Outdoor Education

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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