2023 Top Great Lakes Region Women's D3 Indoor Track and Field Schools
6Colleges
$45,579Avg Tuition & Fees*
69%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Division III Women's Indoor Track and Field in the Great Lakes Region ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
After analyzing 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region , we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for D3 Women's Indoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region. 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.
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Top Colleges in the Great Lakes Region for D3 Women's Indoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region
Our analysis found Ohio Northern University to be the best school for D3 Women’s Indoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region in this year’s ranking. Ohio Northern University is a small private not-for-profit school located in Ada, Ohio that handed out 450 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the D3 Women’s Indoor Track & Field team at ONU made $91,521 in revenue.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. ONU excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our overall quality list.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Chicago landed the #2 spot on the list. UChicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2,425 bachelor’s degrees in .
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 99%. UChicago also made our overall quality list, coming in at #3.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oberlin College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Oberlin, Ohio, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 931 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Oberlin brought in $117,227 while tallying up $113,661 in expenses for its D3 Women’s Indoor Track & Field team. Thus, the team actually made $3,566, which isn’t bad at all.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. Oberlin also claimed a spot on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Saint Norbert College. The school came in at #4 in this year’s ranking. SNC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in De Pere, Wisconsin. It awarded 578 bachelor’s degrees in .
In addition to its great ranking here, SNC is in the top 20% of all schools on our overall quality list.
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The excellent sports programs at Otterbein University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for D3 Women’s Indoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region. Otterbein University is a small private not-for-profit school located in Westerville, Ohio that handed out 575 bachelor’s degrees in .
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Carthage College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Indoor Track and Field in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and it awarded 694 bachelor’s degrees in .
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 6 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%.
