It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Women's Fencing ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
After analyzing 3 schools in the United States, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for Women's Fencing athletes. Instead of depending on subjective information, we focus on objective factors to determine this ranking. These factors include such things as the athletic competitiveness of the school and the school's overall quality. This means that a school must provide students with a great education in addition to having a good sports team if it wants to rank well.
Since one ranking on its own is not enough to give you a complete understanding of your educational options, you can refine this list by location. We've also developed a number of other tools and rankings based on other factors. These other rankings highlight colleges that excel in other factors such as value or diversity as well as schools that excel in serving different groups of students such as online students or returnings adults.
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Top Colleges in the U.S. for Women's Fencing athletes
Our 2023 rankings named Harvard University the best school for Women’s Fencing athletes working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the large private not-for-profit school handed out 1,865 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the Women’s Fencing team at Harvard took home $250,344 in revenue. The team has a great academic progress rate of 994, signifying that team members care about their grades.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Harvard also took the #3 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 1,695 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
On the financial side of things, the Women’s Fencing team at Yale made $137,986 in revenue. The team has a great academic progress rate of 988, signifying that team members care about their grades.
The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Yale also claimed a spot on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 1% of all schools in this category.
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The excellent sports programs at Temple University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Women’s Fencing athletes. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the large public school awarded 5,943 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Speaking financially, the Women’s Fencing team at Temple took home $644,086 in revenue. The team had a perfect academic progress rate of 1000.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Temple excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our overall quality list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 3 schools only.
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.
The academic progress rate (APR) of each team was made available by the NCAA.
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%.
It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our Best Colleges for Women's Fencing ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
