2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Education Teaching & Coaching in Illinois

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Physical Education Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 8,428 people earned their degree in physical education teaching and coaching, making the major the 94th most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 247 physical education teaching and coaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 physical education teaching and coaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,267 and $46,814 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Physical Education Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in physical education teaching and coaching. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physical education teaching and coaching programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the physical education teaching and coaching program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Physical Education Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree physical education teaching students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Physical Education Teaching & Coaching in Illinois

#1

Greenville University

Greenville, Illinois

#2 in overall quality

$8,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Greenville University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Physical Education Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Illinois. Located in Greenville, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified masters’s physical education teaching students in 2019-2020.

Greenville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Physical Education Teaching & Coaching Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Greenville University are $8,082, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Physical Education Teaching & Coaching at Greenville University

#2

Northern Illinois University

Dekalb, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$11,086 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Physical Education Teaching Schools for a Master’s in Illinois list. Northern Illinois University is a public institution located in Dekalb, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 33 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NIU also made our “Best Physical Education Teaching & Coaching Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northern Illinois University are $11,086.

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Notes and References

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.
• 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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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