2023 Top Connecticut Women's D3 Volleyball Schools
8Colleges
$43,862Avg Tuition & Fees*
58%Avg 4-Year Grad Rate*
It's not easy to decide which college to attend when there are so many options available for student athletes. 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 Volleyball in Connecticut ranking is part of that endeavor.
Our analysis looked at 8 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for D3 Women's Volleyball athletes in Connecticut. 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 Connecticut for D3 Women's Volleyball athletes in Connecticut
Our analysis found Wesleyan University to be the best school for D3 Women’s Volleyball athletes in Connecticut in this year’s ranking. Located in Middletown, Connecticut, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 1,206 diplomas to qualified bachelor’s degree students in .
Wesleyan U brought in $272,475 while tallying up $205,332 in expenses for its D3 Women’s Volleyball team. Happily, this means that the team turned a profit of $67,143.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Wesleyan U 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 Connecticut College. The school came in at #2 in this year’s ranking. This small private not-for-profit school is located in New London, Connecticut, and it awarded 562 bachelor’s degrees in .
On the financial side of things, the D3 Women’s Volleyball team at Conn College made $148,176 in revenue.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Conn College also took the #5 spot in our overall quality rankings.
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The excellent sports programs at Trinity College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for D3 Women’s Volleyball athletes in Connecticut. Trinity Bantams is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Hartford, Connecticut. It awarded 648 bachelor’s degrees in .
Trinity Bantams brought in $229,479 while tallying up $224,999 in expenses for its D3 Women’s Volleyball team. So, the team made money for the school, bringing in $4,480 in profit.
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. In addition to its Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Volleyball in Connecticut ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Trinity Bantams is ranked #3 for overall quality in Connecticut.
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The excellent sports programs at University of Saint Joseph helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best schools for D3 Women’s Volleyball athletes in Connecticut. USJ is located in West Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In , this school awarded 232 bachelor’s degrees to qualified undergraduates.
The D3 Women’s Volleyball team at USJ brought home $107,198 in revenue in a single year.
The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 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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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Connecticut State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Colleges for D3 Women’s Volleyball athletes in Connecticut list. Willimantic, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 983 students in .
On the financial side of things, the D3 Women’s Volleyball team at ECSU made $187,454 in revenue.
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Western Connecticut State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Volleyball in Connecticut ranking. Danbury, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelor’s degrees to 909 students in .
On the financial side of things, the D3 Women’s Volleyball team at WestConn made $227,453 in revenue.
Full Western Connecticut State University Sports Report
Albertus Magnus College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Volleyball in Connecticut ranking. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 266 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the D3 Women’s Volleyball team at Albertus Magnus took home $40,514 in revenue.
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Mitchell College landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Best Colleges for Division III Women’s Volleyball in Connecticut ranking. Located in New London, Connecticut, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 98 bachelor’s degrees in .
Speaking financially, the D3 Women’s Volleyball team at Mitchell College took home $63,753 in revenue.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*Avg Tuition and Fees and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top 8 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%.
