2023 Top New England Region Men's D1 (FBS) Football Schools
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$48,150Avg Tuition & Fees*
79%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
When it comes to choosing a college, student athletes have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Division I (FBS) Men's Football in the New England Region ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for D1 (FBS) Men's Football athletes in the New England Region. Our ranking is based on several objective factors, including the school's overall quality and the athletic competitiveness of the school. We steer clear of subjective measures since they don't give a clear picture when determining how one school compares to another. So, even if a school has a great team, it won't place well if it is also considered a low quality college or university.
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Top Colleges in the New England Region for D1 (FBS) Men's Football athletes in the New England Region
Boston College tops this year’s ranking as the best school for D1 (FBS) Men’s Football athletes in the New England Region. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and it awarded 3,062 bachelor’s degrees in .
The team at Boston College took home $38,009,926 in revenue and paid out $28,364,617 in expenses in recent times. Thus, the team actually made $9,645,309, which isn’t bad at all. The team has a great academic progress rate of 989, signifying that team members care about their grades.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. Boston College also claimed a spot on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In , this school awarded 5,690 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
On the financial side of things, the FBS Men’s Football team at UCONN made $18,413,319 in revenue. The team members aren’t slouches in the classroom either, since the team academic progress rate is an excellent 976.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. UCONN 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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Out of the 3 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #3 spot on the list. UMass Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In , this school awarded 6,819 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
On the financial side of things, the FBS Men’s Football team at UMass Amherst made $10,714,989 in revenue. The team has a respectable academic progress rate of 938.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
