2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in Idaho
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Liberal Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 354,866 degrees were awarded to students with this major.
Across Idaho, there were 826 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,282 and $21,331 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho”.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in Idaho
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, New Saint Andrews College landed the #1 spot on the list. Moscow, Idaho is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s liberal studies degrees to 30 students in 2021-2022.
Read full report on Liberal Arts at New Saint Andrews
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Pocatello, Idaho, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
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 more about Liberal Arts at Idaho State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwest Nazarene University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Nampa, Idaho, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s liberal studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.