2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Curriculum Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 19,217 people earned their degree in curriculum & instruction, making the major the 55th most popular in the United States. In , curriculum & instruction graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $50,631 and had an average of $29,853 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,813 curriculum & instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,377 and $26,626 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 curriculum & instruction graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Curriculum Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in curriculum & instruction. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their curriculum & instruction program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Curriculum Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree curriculum students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Curriculum & Instruction in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Curriculum Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Akron Main Campus is located in Akron, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s curriculum degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Read full report on Curriculum & Instruction at University of Akron Main Campus

2

Otterbein University
Westerville, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Otterbein University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Curriculum Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Otterbein University is a small school located in Westerville, Ohio that handed out 4 bachelors’s curriculum degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Curriculum & Instruction at Otterbein

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.

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