2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region
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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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sports Management is the 48th most popular major in the country with 17,486 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 6,078 sports management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 26 sports management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sports management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sports management.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree sports management students.
Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Sports Management in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend United States Sports Academy. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region. United States Sports Academy is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Daphne, Alabama. It awarded 16 doctorate’s sports management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Sports Management at The Academy
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Troy University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region. Troy University is a public institution located in Troy, Alabama. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Troy University Sports Management Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region. Florida State University is a large school located in Tallahassee, Florida that handed out 5 doctorate’s sports management degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Sports Management at Florida State
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Sports Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #4 spot on the list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s sports management degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UofSC Sports Management Report
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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
- *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.
