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Best Value Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

2023 Best Value Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$24,042 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$69,500 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's 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.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for phys ed students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Health & Physical Education

Our 2023 rankings named Brigham Young University - Provo the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for health and physical education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at BYU are $7,700 per year.

BYU also took the #4 spot in our Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Northern Colorado helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health and physical education schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . Located in the midsize city of Greeley, University of Northern Colorado is a public school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Northern Colorado are $22,379 per year.

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#3

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. U of U is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U of U are $25,705 per year.

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Best Health & Physical Education Colleges by State

Explore the best health and physical education colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 910
Utah 943
Idaho 186
Montana 91
Wyoming 120

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

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 averages are for the top 3 schools 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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