2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in Connecticut

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Exercise Science and Kinesiology is the 22nd most popular major in the country with 32,740 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Connecticut, there were 112 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 66 exercise science and kinesiology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in exercise science and kinesiology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their exercise science and kinesiology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The exercise science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree exercise science students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Exercise Science and Kinesiology in Connecticut

1

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

#10 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Connecticut State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut list. New Britain, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s exercise science degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Exercise Science and Kinesiology at Central Connecticut State University

2

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut

#17 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut list. SCSU is a medium-sized school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 6 bachelors’s exercise science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Exercise Science and Kinesiology at SCSU

3

University of Saint Joseph
West Hartford, Connecticut

#14 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Exercise Science Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Saint Joseph landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Saint Joseph is located in West Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s exercise science degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Exercise Science and Kinesiology at University of Saint Joseph

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• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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.