2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region

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Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General is the 54th most popular major in the country with 13,944 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,107 sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general. That schools that top this list have a program in sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General in the Southwest Region

1

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 7 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region. Stillwater, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s phys ed degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 85%.

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3

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s phys ed degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

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Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Tarleton State University is a fairly large school located in Stephenville, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General at Tarleton

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General

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.