When it comes to choosing a college, student athletes have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Men's Football in Montana ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
After analyzing 2 schools in Montana, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Men's Football athletes in Montana. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.
Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as value or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.
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.
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Top Colleges in Montana for Men's Football athletes in Montana
Montana State University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Men’s Football athletes in Montana. Montana State University is a fairly large public school located in Bozeman, Montana that handed out 2,612 bachelor’s degrees in .
The Men’s Football team at MSU Bozeman made $11,572,750 in revenue, while incurring $8,431,325 in expenses. Thus, the team actually made $3,141,425, which isn’t bad at all. The academic progress rate of the team is 950.
MSU Bozeman did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our overall quality list.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend The University of Montana. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. The University of Montana is a medium-sized public school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 1,232 bachelor’s degrees in .
UM brought in $11,315,986 while tallying up $6,586,515 in expenses for its Men’s Football team. So, the team made money for the school, bringing in $4,729,471 in profit. The academic progress rate of the team is 961.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 schools only.
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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
