2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 255 people earned their degree in outdoor education, making the major the 314th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, outdoor education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 17 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in outdoor education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent outdoor education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the outdoor education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

SUNY Cortland

Cortland, New York

#1 in overall quality

$19,440 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Cortland. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Cortland, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s outdoor ed degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Cortland did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Outdoor Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SUNY Cortland is $19,440 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Outdoor Ed students whose families make $75-$110k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Outdoor Education at SUNY Cortland

#2

Salisbury University

Salisbury, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$22,193 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salisbury University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Outdoor Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Salisbury, Maryland, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s outdoor ed students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree outdoor ed students whose families make $75-$110k list, Salisbury has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Outdoor Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $22,193 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree outdoor ed students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Salisbury University.

The low student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

Full Salisbury Outdoor Education Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education (Income $75-$110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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