2023 Top Great Lakes Region Women's Outdoor Track and Field Schools
6Colleges
$37,528Avg Tuition & Fees*
60%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Women's Outdoor Track and Field in the Great Lakes Region ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region. To come up with this ranking, we look at a number of factors that are all objective measurements. These factors include the school's overall quality as determined by our Best Colleges ranking and the athletic competitiveness of the school. Thus, in order to rank well, the school must offer a quality education in addition to having a great sports team.
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Top Colleges in the Great Lakes Region for Women's Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region
Our 2023 rankings named University of Notre Dame the best school for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region working on their bachelor’s degree. Notre Dame is located in Notre Dame, Indiana and, has a fairly large student population. In , this school awarded 2,829 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Notre Dame did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our overall quality list.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Purdue University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. This large public school is located in West Lafayette, Indiana, and it awarded 8,676 bachelor’s degrees in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Purdue also claimed a spot on our overall quality list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio Northern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Colleges for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region list. ONU is located in Ada, Ohio and, has a small student population. In , this school awarded 450 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
The Women’s Outdoor Track and Field team at ONU brought home $78,959 in revenue in a single year.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. As a testament to the quality of education it offers, ONU also is in the top 15% of our overall quality ranking.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Findlay landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Findlay, Ohio, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 478 bachelor’s degrees in .
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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A rank of #5 on our list means Carthage College is a great place for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field athletes in the Great Lakes Region working on their bachelor’s degree. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and it awarded 694 bachelor’s degrees in .
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Aurora University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Colleges for Women’s Outdoor Track and Field in the Great Lakes Region list. Aurora is a private not-for-profit institution located in Aurora, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1,249 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the Women’s Outdoor Track and Field team at Aurora made $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 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%.
