2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 1,441 people earned their degree in other health and physical education/fitness, making the major the 392nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 489 other health and physical education/fitness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 other health and physical education/fitness graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other health and physical education/fitness. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other health and physical education/fitness.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree outdoor health & physical education/fitness students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness in the Southeast Region

1

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alabama at Birmingham. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s other health and physical education/fitness degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full UAB Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Report

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The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Alabama. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Southeast Region. UA is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s other health and physical education/fitness degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

Read more about Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness at The University of Alabama

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness

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.