2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Connecticut (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Connecticut, there were 256 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $26,657 and $17,198 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 health and physical education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in health and physical education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality health and physical education programs that also have a lower cost than 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health & Physical Education in Connecticut (With Aid)

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$48,667 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s phys ed degrees to 24 students in 2019-2020.

UCONN also took the #1 spot in our “Best Health & Physical Education Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at University of Connecticut

#2

Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, Connecticut

$26,658 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Phys Ed Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid list. SCSU is a medium-sized school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 2 masters’s phys ed degrees in 2019-2020.

SCSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Health & Physical Education Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SCSU are $26,658.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at Southern Connecticut State University

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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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