2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Iowa

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Health & Physical Education is the 11th most popular major in the country with 67,146 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, health and physical education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,386 and had an average of $24,576 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 1,379 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,573 and $26,058 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,340 and $19,937 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in health and physical education. That schools that top this list have a program in health and physical education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa

The colleges and universities below are the best for iowa associate degree phys ed students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Iowa

1

Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Kirkwood Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Cedar Rapids, Iowa is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s phys ed degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Full Kirkwood Community College Health & Physical Education Report

2

Waldorf University
Forest City, Iowa

#20 overall quality in Iowa

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waldorf University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa. Waldorf is a small private for-profit school situated in Forest City, Iowa. It awarded 2 associates’s phys ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at Waldorf University

3

Des Moines Area Community College
Ankeny, Iowa

#19 overall quality in Iowa

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Des Moines Area Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. DMACC is a large public school situated in Ankeny, Iowa. It awarded 1 associates’s phys ed degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

North Iowa Area Community College
Mason City, Iowa

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, North Iowa Area Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Mason City, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s phys ed degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at North Iowa Area Community College

4

Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, Iowa

#23 overall quality in Iowa

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Phys Ed Major in Iowa that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa Central Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Fort Dodge, Iowa, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s phys ed students in 2020-2021.

Full Iowa Central Community College Health & Physical Education Report

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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.