It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our Best Colleges for Women's Tennis in North Carolina ranking - to help you make that decision.
After analyzing 2 schools in North Carolina, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Women's Tennis athletes in North Carolina. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the athletic competitiveness of the school. Thus, in order to rank well, the school must offer a quality education in addition to having a great sports team.
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Top Colleges in North Carolina for Women's Tennis athletes in North Carolina
Our analysis found Duke University to be the best school for Women’s Tennis athletes in North Carolina in this year’s ranking. Duke is a private not-for-profit institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2,312 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the Women’s Tennis team at Duke took home $1,287,727 in revenue. Sports aren’t the only thing that the team excels at - they had a perfect academic progress rate of 1000.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Duke not only placed well in this ranking, but it is also #1 on our overall quality list.
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A rank of #2 on our list means University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a great place for Women’s Tennis athletes in North Carolina working on their bachelor’s degree. This large public school is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and it awarded 6,451 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the Women’s Tennis team at UNC Chapel Hill made $474,926 in revenue. Sports aren’t the only thing that the team excels at - they had a perfect academic progress rate of 1000.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. UNC Chapel Hill also made our overall quality list, coming in at #4.
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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%.
