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2023 Best Value Outdoor Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$21,593 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$23,048 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Outdoor Education School for You

Outdoor Education is the #313 most popular major in the country with 265 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Outdoor Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which programs offered the best value experiences for outdoor ed students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Outdoor Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for outdoor ed majors pursuing a .

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Outdoor Education

Our analysis found Weber State University to be the best value school for outdoor education students who want to pursue a degree in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the city of Ogden, WSU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

WSU undergraduate students pay an average of $16,644 in tuition and fees each year.

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$28,476 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Montana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Outdoor Education Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the small city of Missoula, UM is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UM undergraduate students pay an average of $28,476 in tuition and fees each year.

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#3

Fort Lewis College

Durango, CO
$19,660 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fort Lewis College landed the # 3 spot on the list. FLC is a small public school located in the town of Durango.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at FLC are $19,660 a year. Outdoor Ed majors at FLC take out an average of $14,000 in student loans while working on their egree.

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Best Outdoor Education Colleges by State

Explore the best outdoor education colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 16
Utah 14
Idaho 4

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Outdoor Education is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Physical Education 67,146
Recreation Administration 3,122
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 3,106
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to SLenartowicz.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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