2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 32,740 people earned their degree in exercise science and kinesiology, making the major the 22nd most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 1,251 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,626 and $15,120 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in exercise science and kinesiology. That schools that top this list have a program in exercise science and kinesiology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois associate degree exercise science students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in Illinois

1

Lewis and Clark Community College
Godfrey, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis and Clark Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Illinois list. Lewis and Clark Community College is a public institution located in Godfrey, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lewis and Clark Community College Exercise Science and Kinesiology Report

2

Prairie State College
Chicago Heights, Illinois

Top 20% overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Prairie State College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Illinois list. Prairie State College is located in Chicago Heights, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s exercise science degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Exercise Science and Kinesiology at Prairie State College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.