by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 67,146 people earned their degree in health and physical education, making the major the 11th most popular in the United States. 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 Rhode Island, there were 201 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,718 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in health and physical education. To top this list, a school must have a successful health and physical education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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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 “Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson & Wales University - Online. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s list. Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s phys ed degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Health & Physical Education at Johnson & Wales University - Online
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s. University of Rhode Island is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s phys ed degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Health & Physical Education at University of Rhode Island
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Phys Ed Major in Rhode Island for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Johnson & Wales University - Providence landed the #3 spot on the list. JWU Providence is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 6 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Johnson & Wales University - Providence Health & Physical Education Report
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