2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Studies in the Southeast Region

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 148 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 sports studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sports studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sports studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Studies in the Southeast Region

1

United States Sports Academy
Daphne, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend United States Sports Academy. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. The Academy is a private not-for-profit institution located in Daphne, Alabama. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full The Academy Sports Studies Report

2

Randolph College
Lynchburg, Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Randolph College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Randolph College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Sports Studies at Randolph

3

Cumberland University
Lebanon, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cumberland University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Lebanon, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s sports studies students in 2020-2021.

Full CU Sports Studies Report

4

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Studies Major in the Southeast Region. University of Kentucky is a public institution located in Lexington, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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%.

Read full report on Sports Studies at University of Kentucky

• 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.