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2023 Top Plains States Region Women's D3 Golf Schools

With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for Division III Women's Golf in the Plains States Region ranking is part of that endeavor.

We analyzed 2 colleges and universities across the Plains States Region to determine which were the best for D3 Women's Golf athletes in the Plains States Region. 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.

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Top Colleges in the Plains States Region for D3 Women's Golf athletes in the Plains States Region

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

Carleton College
Northfield, Minnesota

#2 in Quality in the Plains States Region

$54,298 Team Revenue

$62,634 Avg Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Carleton College the best school for D3 Women’s Golf athletes in the Plains States Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Northfield, Minnesota, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 555 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in . The team at Carleton took home $54,298 in revenue and paid out $53,322 in expenses in recent times. That boils down to a yearly profit of $976 for the sports team. The impressive 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. In addition to its Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Golf in the Plains States Region ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Carleton is ranked #2 for overall quality in the Plains States Region . Read full sports report on Carleton College

2

Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa

#5 in Quality in the Plains States Region

$74,673 Team Revenue

$61,480 Avg Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grinnell College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Colleges for D3 Women’s Golf athletes in the Plains States Region list. Grinnell College is a small private not-for-profit school located in Grinnell, Iowa that handed out 558 bachelor’s degrees in . The D3 Women’s Golf team at Grinnell brought home $74,673 in revenue in a single year. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Grinnell also made our overall quality list, coming in at #5. Full Grinnell College Sports Report

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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.
• Revenue and expense information comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (EADA) website.
• 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.