Student athletes have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its Best Colleges for Division I Women's Softball in Kansas ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
After analyzing 2 schools in Kansas, we came up with our list of those that offered the best educational experiences for D1 Women's Softball athletes in Kansas. 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.
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.
We've created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don't have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
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Top Colleges in Kansas for D1 Women's Softball athletes in Kansas
Our analysis found University of Kansas to be the best school for D1 Women’s Softball athletes in Kansas in this year’s ranking. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, the large public school handed out 4,493 bachelor’s degrees in .
The D1 Women’s Softball team at KU brought home $225,855 in revenue in a single year. The team has a great academic progress rate of 982, signifying that team members care about their grades.
KU also took the #1 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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A rank of #2 on our list means Wichita State University is a great place for D1 Women’s Softball athletes in Kansas working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in Wichita, Kansas, the fairly large public school handed out 2,423 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the D1 Women’s Softball team at WSU took home $1,461,308 in revenue. The team has a great academic progress rate of 997, signifying that team members care about their grades.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 2 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%.
