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2023 Best Value Health & Physical Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$7,920 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,381 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health & Physical Education Associate Degree School for You

Health & Physical Education is the #11 most popular major in the country with 67,146 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Health & Physical Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Health & Physical Education Associate Degree Colleges.

Best Health & Physical Education Associate Degree School

#1

South Texas College

McAllen, TX

Our 2023 rankings named South Texas College the best value school in the Southwest Region for health and physical education students working on their associate degree. South Texas College is a fairly large public school located in the city of McAllen.

South Texas College undergraduate students pay an average of $7,920 in tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that phys ed majors at South Texas College take out while working on their Associate Degree is $7,539.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, South Texas College also is in the top 10% of our Best Health & Physical Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at South Texas College

Best Health & Physical Education Colleges by State

Explore the best health and physical education schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 7,194
Arizona 949
Oklahoma 1,053
New Mexico 141

One of 4 majors within the area of study, health and physical education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Phys Ed

Related Major Annual Graduates
Recreation Administration 3,122
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 3,106
Outdoor Education 265
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 174

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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