Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southwest Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southwest Region that made our Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Health & Physical Education School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of health & physical education for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality phys ed program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health & physical education students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other health & physical education students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for health & physical education to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health & physical education related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health & physical education students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southwest Region

Due to missing data, we were not able to show you the health & physical education quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Southwest Region that both offer health & physical education and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Health & Physical Education rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Health & Physical Education ranking.

Best Health & Physical Education Colleges by State

Explore the best health & physical education schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	165	42
Arizona	119	4
Oklahoma	92	11
New Mexico	59	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Phys Ed

One of 4 majors within the Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies area of study, Health & Physical Education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Phys Ed Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Exercise Science and Kinesiology	28
Sports Kinesiology and Physical Education/Fitness General	8
Outdoor Health & Physical Education/Fitness	5

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.