2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$31,800
Avg Cost*
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 Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Outdoor Education is the 313th most popular major in the country with 313 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , outdoor education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $27,786 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 34 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 outdoor education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in outdoor education.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Education in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Ed Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Prescott College landed the #1 spot on the list. Prescott College is located in Prescott, Arizona and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 15 masters’s outdoor ed degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Outdoor Education at Prescott College
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.
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