If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #75 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 273 bachelor's degrees in general education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Education School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The education bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality education program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general education students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt general education students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general education students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Education Bachelor's Degree Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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It's difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general education. UWM is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Milwaukee.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the education program earn around $43,867 in their early career salary.
It is difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Green Bay if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in general education. Located in the city of Green Bay, UW - Green Bay is a public university with a large student population.
After graduating, education bachelor's recipients generally make around $42,768 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The education bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality education program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
