2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

SUMMARY

Studying Health and Fitness is not only a valuable choice, but commonly a required first step for scholars wanting to begin a career as an athletic trainer, a fitness fashion designer, or a sports and fitness nutritionist. In fact, health and fitness is pretty common coming in at the 47th most popular area of study. Last year alone, there were 10,378 health and fitness graduates. In-state tuition for health and fitness at private universities is, on average, 3.4 times more costly than their public equivalents.

There are 279 schools that offer health and fitness. 279 colleges is fairly average in terms of the number of institutions which offer each degree. If you are hoping to surround yourself with other health and fitness undergraduates, look at institutions in California which have the most undergraduates admitted to health and fitness annually. less precisely, the best region to get a degree in health and fitness is in the Far West region with California State University-Fullerton, California State University-Northridge, and San Diego State University best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to study health and fitness is the California Collegiate Athletic Association with California State University-San Bernardino, San Francisco State University, and California State University-San Marcos representing the conference. From our list of the best colleges, our choice for the best college for health and fitness is Emory University.

The best school is not necessarily the best school for every student. There might be tons of angels to think about when choosing institution. Features like campus amenities, transportation services, and food might definitely affect one's inclinations of where to go to college. Here at Authority, we evaluated the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you are interested in which health and fitness school has the top campus, the winner is San Diego State University. If you are very interested in which school boasts the top campus, we have a whole list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through government databases, student reviews, professor reviews, and more so we can compare all U.S. majors in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can find our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand our pick of the university with the best student life for health and fitness is University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Curious why? Keep scrolling to discover more about Authority's top recommendations. Some of our conclusions will probably shock you.

If expense is a primary deciding factor in your decisions, you might be cautious about Emory University. Emory University&nbspappears to be our most expensive university for health and fitness, at least for out of state students. We do have an entire page for the most expensive&nbspcolleges that might put the expense of Emory University&nbspinto perspective. For more context, you might care to know that health and fitness is the 241st most expensive major in the nation, with an average associated cost of $27,900. On a broader scale, the most expensive state for health and fitness on our list is Maryland with tuition and fees at the primary school, McDaniel College, of $44,540. To zoom out even further, the most expensive region of the country for health and fitness is the Great Lakes region which is best demonstrated with Hanover College with a cost of $37,980, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor with a cost of $52,669, and Ohio Wesleyan University with a cost of $46,870.

Our cheapest region for health and fitness is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790, Utah Valley University with a cost of $15,872, and Weber State University with a cost of $14,973. In better news, the most affordable university for health and fitness is Brigham Young University-Provo. Authority's entire list of the most affordable schools can be found here.

In-state learners can expect to pay around $9,000 for a degree in health and fitness. That price grows by a lot to an average of $20,600 for an out-of-state public-school student. Our choice for the college constituting the best value for health and fitness: Emory University. Here you can see our comprehensive list on the colleges we see as being the best value&nbspin general. With that said, this list is predicated on being an out-of-state student. A discussion of value changes when in-state tuition is considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for health and fitness majors can differ, but within two years leaving college graduates will often make around $43,100. There is a lot of variation in pay; top earners can bring in up to $78,000. Even right out of school, the minimum earning jobs within the health and fitness field make $24,000, which isn't that bad. The highest earning grads for health and fitness have come from Emory University&nbspand if you want to find the schools with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The overall diversity of health and fitness sits pretty high, being in the 92nd percentile of majors nationally. The school with the highest composite diversity for health and fitness is Gallaudet University&nbspand here you can find our general list for the schools with the most diversity. The overall financial diversity of the Health and Fitness major ranks only within the 41st percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is actually greater, in the 95th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest proportion at 43% of those majoring in health and fitness. Additionally, 52% of undergrads seeking a health and fitness major are women.

The median rating of health and fitness professors is 4 stars, a rating that is surprisingly the average for all majors; which is a fine. If you are looking for the most popular health and fitness professor in the nation, look no further than Vikas Sudesh at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach. It might surprise you, but the best ranked health and fitness professors by student are at Santa Monica College. If we including data other than simply rankings it becomes clear that the school with the overall best professors for health and fitness is Emory University. One can find an explanation of our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as some of the best examples of professors in the country.

Finally, the hardest university to get into for health and fitness is Emory University. While we do not necessarily see the value in it, we have an extensive list of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, we hope you believe that looking at the higher education world through a lens mainly formed from superlatives could be said to be the root of many of higher education's fundamental issues. We encourage you to read our more nuanced pages on individual colleges and peruse a couple of Authority's informative background pages on useful details to consider as you continue your school search.