Health & Physical Education at Salem College

If you plan to study health and physical education, take a look at what Salem College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Salem is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and has a total student population of 636. Of the 154 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Salem College in 2021, 5 of them were health and physical education majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Health & Physical Education section at the bottom of this page.

Salem Health & Physical Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Phys Ed

Salem Health & Physical Education Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks phys ed programs across the country. The following shows how Salem performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The phys ed major at Salem is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Health & Physical Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	466
Most Focused Health & Physical Education Schools	548
Most Popular Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	807
Most Popular Health & Physical Education Schools	1,080

Phys Ed Student Demographics at Salem

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the phys ed majors at Salem College.

Salem Health & Physical Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 phys ed students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Salem, about 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in phys ed at Salem are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Salem College with a bachelor's in phys ed.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Salem also has a doctoral program available in phys ed. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Phys Ed Grads May Go Into

A degree in phys ed can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for Salem College.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Fitness Trainers and Aerobics Instructors	9,690	$37,020
Coaches and Scouts	6,340	$46,420
Recreation and Fitness Studies Professors	1,040	$62,790
Athletic Trainers	880	$47,120

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.