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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Performance and Sport Psychology is the 1037th most popular major in the country with 205 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 167 performance and sport psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in performance and sport psychology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in performance and sport psychology.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree performance and sport psychology students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major that were part of this year’s ranking, California Baptist University landed the #1 spot on the list. California Baptist University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Riverside, California. It awarded 34 masters’s performance and sport psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full California Baptist University Performance and Sport Psychology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major list. University of Kentucky is a large public school situated in Lexington, Kentucky. It awarded 7 masters’s performance and sport psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Performance and Sport Psychology at University of Kentucky
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loras College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Performance and Sport Psychology Major list. Loras College is located in Dubuque, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s performance and sport psychology degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Loras College Performance and Sport Psychology 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.
