2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Sports Studies

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Sports Studies is the 557th most popular major in the country with 614 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sports studies. That schools that top this list have a program in sports studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree sports studies students.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Sports Studies

1

Finger Lakes Community College
Canandaigua, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Finger Lakes Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Finger Lakes Community College is a medium-sized school located in Canandaigua, New York that handed out 5 associates’s sports studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Sports Studies at Finger Lakes Community College

2

SUNY Broome
Binghamton, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Broome landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Binghamton, New York, this small public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified associates’s sports studies students in 2020-2021.

Full SUNY Broome Sports Studies Report

3

Erie Community College
Buffalo, New York

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Erie Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Erie Community College is located in Buffalo, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s sports studies degrees to qualified students.

Full Erie Community College Sports Studies Report

4

Luna Community College
Las Vegas, New Mexico

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Luna Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Las Vegas, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s sports studies students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Sports Studies at Luna Community College

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.