2023 Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sports kinesiology and physical education/fitness general.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

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

1

Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
Stillwater, Oklahoma

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Oklahoma State University - Main Campus is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 masters’s phys ed degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full OSU Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General Report

2

Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s phys ed degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

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

3

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Dallas Baptist University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s phys ed students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General at Dallas Baptist University

4

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Physical Education Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Tarleton is a public institution located in Stephenville, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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

• Most Popular 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.