2024 Best Value Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education
508
Colleges
5,415,716
Bachelor's Degrees
$19,396
Avg Cost*
Finding the Best Value Health & Physical Education School for You
With N/A bachelor's degrees handed out in 2021-2022, health & physical education is the #9 most popular major in the United States.
This year's Best Value Bachelor's Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education ranking analyzed 508 colleges that offered a bachelor's degree in phys ed. To us, 'best value' doesn't just mean the school with the lowest overall costs. We are more focused on phys ed schools that offer a high quality education at a price lower that other schools of similar academic excellence.
To determine the average cost, we look at total expenses - such as tuition, fees, room and board, books, and other related expenses - and then subtract the average financial award a student receives. Knowing this amount can help you determine how much you may have to borrow in loans or take out of savings. Depending on your income and other factors, the cost for you to attend a particular school may be more or less.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Value Phys Ed Schools list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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2024 Best Value Health & Physical Education Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the best for the money for phys ed majors.
Top 10 Best Value Health & Physical Education Schools
Our rankings recognize American Public University System as the #1 school in this year's rankings. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population. In addition to its great value ranking, American Military University is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Health & Physical Education Schools list.
If you can shave even one term off your degree, you can save a substantial amount of money.
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The #2 spot in this year's ranking belongs to Brigham Young University - Provo. BYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Provo. BYU also claimed a spot on our Best Health & Physical Education Schools list. It's in the top 10% of all schools in this category.
The average student at BYU graduates in less than 5.2 years, and the average full-time cost to attend the school is around $12,451. This makes the estimated cost of a bachelor’s degree from BYU be around $64,123. When students graduate in a lesser amount of time, they can save thousands of dollars.
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University of the Cumberlands landed the #3 spot in our 2024 rankings for best value health & physical education schools. Cumberlands is a large private not-for-profit school located in the town of Williamsburg.
It takes about 4.2 years for the average student at Cumberlands to complete their degree, and the average full-time cost to attend the school is around $8,734. This means that the average student pays around $36,595 to get a bachelor’s degree from Cumberlands. When you graduate sooner, you can save a lot of money.
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Our rankings recognize Dickinson State University as the #4 school in this year's rankings. Located in the remote town of Dickinson, DSU is a public college with a small student population.
It takes the average student at DSU about 4.7 years to graduate, and the yearly average cost to attend the school is $16,830. Looking at these numbers together, we estimate that the average cost of a bachelor’s degree from DSU is about $79,269. When students graduate in a lesser amount of time, they can save thousands of dollars.
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Our rankings recognize University of Wisconsin - La Crosse as the #5 school in this year's rankings. Located in the small city of La Crosse, UW - La Crosse is a public school with a large student population. In addition to its great value ranking, UW - La Crosse is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Health & Physical Education Schools list.
It takes the average student at UW - La Crosse about 4.5 years to graduate, and the yearly average cost to attend the school is $19,352. This means that the average student pays around $86,697 to get a bachelor’s degree from UW - La Crosse. When you graduate sooner, you can save a lot of money.
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Central Michigan University comes in at #6 in this year's ranking. Located in the town of Mount Pleasant, Central Michigan is a public school with a fairly large student population. As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Central Michigan also is in the top 15% of our Best Health & Physical Education Schools ranking.
It takes about 4.7 years for the average student at Central Michigan to complete their degree, and the average full-time cost to attend the school is around $25,692. Looking at these numbers together, we estimate that the average cost of a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan is about $119,468. If you can shave even one term off your degree, you can save a substantial amount of money.
Full Health & Physical Education at Central Michigan University Report
South Dakota State University comes in at #7 in this year's ranking. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Brookings.
It takes about 4.4 years for the average student at South Dakota State to complete their degree, and on average, the annual cost to attend the school is $20,337. Looking at these numbers together, we estimate that the average cost of a bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State is about $89,483. If you can shave even one term off your degree, you can save a substantial amount of money.
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Arkansas State University - Main Campus comes in at #8 in this year's ranking. Located in the city of Jonesboro, A-State is a public college with a large student population. A-State excels when it comes to quality. It's ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Health & Physical Education Schools list.
The average student at A-State graduates in less than 4.4 years, and it costs about $17,763 per year to attend the school. When we combine these numbers, we estimate that the cost to get a bachelor’s degree from A-State is $77,447. When students graduate in a lesser amount of time, they can save thousands of dollars.
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University of Memphis earned the #9 spot in our 2024 rankings. Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public college with a very large student population. As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UofM also is in the top 20% of our Best Health & Physical Education Schools ranking.
It takes about 4.6 years for the average student at UofM to complete their degree, and on average, the annual cost to attend the school is $21,589. Putting this cost and the average time to graduate together, we find that the average amount you’ll pay to get a bachelor’s degree from UofM is $98,662. The sooner a student graduates, the more money they can save.
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The #10 spot in this year's ranking belongs to Minnesota State University - Mankato. Minnesota State Mankato is a large public school located in the city of Mankato. On top of its placing in our value rankings, Minnesota State Mankato also did well on our Best Health & Physical Education Schools list. It's in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in that analysis.
It takes about 4.6 years for the average student at Minnesota State Mankato to complete their degree, and the average full-time cost to attend the school is around $22,109. This means that the average student pays around $100,817 to get a bachelor’s degree from Minnesota State Mankato. If you can shave even one term off your degree, you can save a substantial amount of money.
Full Health & Physical Education at Minnesota State University - Mankato Report
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Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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).
More about our data sources and methodologies.
