2023 Top District of Columbia Women's Softball Schools
6Colleges
$41,926Avg Tuition & Fees*
54%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 has developed its Best Colleges for Women's Softball in District of Columbia ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Our analysis looked at 6 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for Women's Softball athletes in District of Columbia. Our ranking methodology focuses a number of different objective factors - such as the overall quality of the school, the school's athletic competitiveness, and the amount of athletic aid per student - to make this determination. Having a great sports team is not enough - the school must also focus on academic excellence.
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Top Colleges in District of Columbia for Women's Softball athletes in District of Columbia
George Washington University tops this year’s ranking as the best school for Women’s Softball athletes in District of Columbia. GWU is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In , this school awarded 3,466 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
The Women’s Softball team at GWU brought home $1,128,526 in revenue in a single year. Sports aren’t the only thing that the team excels at - they had a perfect academic progress rate of 1000.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. GWU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our overall quality list.
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A rank of #2 on our list means Georgetown University is a great place for Women’s Softball athletes in District of Columbia working on their bachelor’s degree. Georgetown is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In , this school awarded 2,223 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
Speaking financially, the Women’s Softball team at Georgetown took home $891,709 in revenue. The team had a perfect academic progress rate of 1000.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. Georgetown also took the #1 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend Catholic University of America. The school came in at #3 in this year’s ranking. CUA is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a small student population. In , this school awarded 834 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
The team at CUA took home $181,988 in revenue and paid out $170,922 in expenses in recent times. Thus, the team actually made $11,066, which isn’t bad at all.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. CUA also made our overall quality list, coming in at #4.
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A rank of #4 on our list means Howard University is a great place for Women’s Softball athletes in District of Columbia working on their bachelor’s degree. This fairly large private not-for-profit school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 1,292 bachelor’s degrees in .
The Women’s Softball team at Howard brought home $51,115 in revenue in a single year. The academic progress rate of the team is 939.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Howard also made our overall quality list, coming in at #5.
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The excellent sports programs at Gallaudet University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for Women’s Softball athletes in District of Columbia. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 222 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
The team at Gallaudet took home $173,818 in revenue and paid out $166,943 in expenses in recent times. So, the team made money for the school, bringing in $6,875 in profit.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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Trinity Washington University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Best Colleges for Women’s Softball in District of Columbia ranking. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 205 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%.
