2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness in the Great Lakes Region

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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 Great Lakes region, there were 149 other health and physical education/fitness graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 64 other health and physical education/fitness graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other health and physical education/fitness. That schools that top this list have a program in other health and physical education/fitness in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness in the Great Lakes Region

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Concordia University, Chicago
River Forest, Illinois

Top 15% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. River Forest, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s other health and physical education/fitness degrees to 48 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Concordia University, Chicago Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Report

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Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
Bowling Green, Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bowling Green State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Bowling Green, Ohio, and it awarded 16 masters’s other health and physical education/fitness degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness at Bowling Green State University - Main Campus

• Most Focused Master’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.