2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Kansas

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 “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Health & Physical Education is the 11th most popular major in the country with 64,869 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health and physical education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,872 and had an average of $24,778 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kansas, there were 626 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,550 and $24,256 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 47 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,499 and $30,950 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health and physical education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health and physical education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the health and physical education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas” list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Kansas

#1

Baker University

Baldwin City, Kansas

#1 in overall quality

$11,844 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baker University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas list. Baker is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Baldwin City, Kansas. It awarded 13 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Baker also took the #1 spot in our “Best Health & Physical Education Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Baker are $11,844.

Full Baker Health & Physical Education Report

#2

Wichita State University

Wichita, Kansas

#2 in overall quality

$15,112 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,896 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Wichita, Kansas, and it awarded 34 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

WSU also made our “Best Health & Physical Education Master’s Degree Schools in Kansas” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at WSU are $15,112, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at WSU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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