General Education at Colby College

If you are interested in studying general education, you may want to check out the program at Colby College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Colby is located in Waterville, Maine and approximately 2,155 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 23 general education majors received their bachelor's degree from Colby.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Education section at the bottom of this page.

Colby General Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Education

Colby General Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks general education programs across the country. The following shows how Colby performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The general education major at Colby is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
Most Popular General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	48
Most Focused General Education Schools	169
Most Popular General Education Schools	252

General Education Student Demographics at Colby

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general education majors at Colby College.

Colby General Education Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 general education majors earned their bachelor's degree from Colby. Of these graduates, 22% were men and 78% were women. The typical general education bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at Colby since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in general education at Colby are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Colby College with a bachelor's in general education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	13
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Colby also has a doctoral program available in general education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That General Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in general education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for ME, the home state for Colby College.

Occupation	Jobs in ME	Average Salary in ME
Education Professors	360	$59,150

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Nickline4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.