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2023 Top Kentucky Women's D1 Swimming Schools

With all of the options student athletes have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 I Women's Swimming in Kentucky ranking is part of that endeavor.

Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for D1 Women's Swimming athletes in Kentucky. 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.

Get more details on our ranking methodology.

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Top Colleges in Kentucky for D1 Women's Swimming athletes in Kentucky

See which schools came out on top of our ranking:

1

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

#6 in Quality in Kentucky

$28,866 Avg Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Louisville the best school for D1 Women’s Swimming athletes in Kentucky working on their bachelor’s degree. This large public school is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and it awarded 3,008 bachelor’s degrees in . Full University of Louisville Sports Report

2

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#3 in Quality in Kentucky

$32,276 Avg Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best athletes around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 5,449 students in . With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. In addition to its Best Colleges for Division I Women’s Swimming in Kentucky ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UK is ranked #3 for overall quality in Kentucky. Read More…

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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.
• Revenue and expense information comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (EADA) website.
• 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.