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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

1 Ranked Colleges
591 Degrees Awarded
$1,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Phys Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Health & Physical Education is the 11th most popular major in the country with 64,869 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, health and physical education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,872 and had an average of $24,778 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 9,340 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,939 and $22,671 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 591 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great health and physical education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the health and physical education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Phys Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree phys ed students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

South Texas College

McAllen, Texas

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Phys Ed Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, South Texas College landed the #1 spot on the list. South Texas College is a large school located in McAllen, Texas that handed out 67 associates’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at South Texas College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health & Physical Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Texas College is $1,390 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Phys Ed students whose families make $30-$48k.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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