2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 29,389 people earned their degree in general education, making the major the 31st most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 78 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,578 and $24,158 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in general education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general education.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in District of Columbia

1

Trinity Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#7 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general education students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Education at Trinity Washington University

2

Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia

#5 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gallaudet University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia. Gallaudet is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s general education degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate 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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Education at Gallaudet

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Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Education Major in District of Columbia. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s general education degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Education at Catholic University of America

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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