2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 614 people earned their degree in sports studies, making the major the 557th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 129 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in sports studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sports studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree sports studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Studies in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Western States
Portland, Oregon

#14 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Western States. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. This small school is located in Portland, Oregon, and it awarded 24 masters’s sports studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full University of Western States Sports Studies Report

2

National University
La Jolla, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in La Jolla, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 68 diplomas to qualified masters’s sports studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Sports Studies at National University

3

Saybrook University
Oakland, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Saybrook University landed the #3 spot on the list. Saybrook University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Oakland, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Saybrook University Sports Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Studies

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.