2023 Top Great Lakes Region Women's D3 Outdoor Track and Field Schools
3Colleges
$32,817Avg Tuition & Fees*
53%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. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for Division III Women's Outdoor Track and Field in the Great Lakes Region ranking is part of that endeavor.
Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for D3 Women's Outdoor 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 Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region
Ohio Northern University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for D3 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Ada, Ohio, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 450 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
The D3 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field team at ONU brought home $78,959 in revenue in a single year.
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 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carthage College landed the #2 spot on the list. Kenosha, Wisconsin is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 694 students in .
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aurora University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Colleges for D3 Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region list. Aurora University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in Aurora, Illinois that handed out 1,249 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the D3 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field team at Aurora took home $62,924 in revenue.
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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%.
