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2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

There are about 47,899 students enrolled in Health and Fitness in the USA.

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popularity

Above Average

Compared to national avg.

Diplomas received last year

14,116

Vs. National Avg.

-11%

popularity Rank

#70

cost

Very Affordable

Compared to national avg.

Median degree cost

$19K

Vs. National Avg.

-20%

cost Rank

#328

salary

Low Paying

Compared to national avg.

Average Salary Two Years Out of School

$37K

Vs. National Avg.

-8%

salary Rank

#340

professors

Below Average

Compared to national avg.

Professor Rating

C+

Vs. National Avg.

-1%

professors Rank

#279

students

Not Very Diverse

Compared to national avg.

Diversity Rating

C+

Vs. National Avg.

-2%

students Rank

#287

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.

Top 25 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

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A+

Rating

#1 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL | www.ufl.edu/

31%

Acceptance

58,857

Students

#76

Ranking

$29K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#2 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, CA | www.berkeley.edu/

17%

Acceptance

45,878

Students

#55

Ranking

$44K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#3 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Florida State University

Tallahassee, FL | https://www.fsu.edu/

32%

Acceptance

47,836

Students

#138

Ranking

$19K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#4 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA | www.uci.edu/

30%

Acceptance

39,059

Students

#77

Ranking

$44K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#5 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN | https://twin-cities.umn.edu/

70%

Acceptance

63,760

Students

#159

Ranking

$33K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#6 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Skidmore College

Saratoga Springs, NY | www.skidmore.edu/

32%

Acceptance

2,818

Students

#86

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#7 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Miami

Coral Gables, FL | www.miami.edu/

33%

Acceptance

19,971

Students

#73

Ranking

$54K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#8 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of California-Davis

Davis, CA | ucdavis.edu/

46%

Acceptance

41,236

Students

#96

Ranking

$44K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#9 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

George Washington University

Washington, DC | https://www.gwu.edu/

43%

Acceptance

32,209

Students

#68

Ranking

$59K

Tuition

A

Rating

#10 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Amherst, MA | www.umass.edu/

65%

Acceptance

35,781

Students

#218

Ranking

$36K

Tuition

A

Rating

#11 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Auburn University

Auburn, AL | www.auburn.edu/

85%

Acceptance

32,840

Students

#276

Ranking

$32K

Tuition

A

Rating

#12 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Brigham Young University

Provo, UT | www.byu.edu/

69%

Acceptance

39,086

Students

#198

Ranking

$6K

Tuition

A−

Rating

#13 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Missouri-Columbia

Columbia, MO | https://missouri.edu/

82%

Acceptance

32,916

Students

#450

Ranking

$29K

Tuition

A

Rating

#14 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of South Carolina-Columbia

Columbia, SC | www.sc.edu/

68%

Acceptance

38,526

Students

#258

Ranking

$34K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#15 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA | https://www.gettysburg.edu/

48%

Acceptance

2,638

Students

#128

Ranking

$59K

Tuition

A

Rating

#16 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Creighton University

Omaha, NE | https://www.creighton.edu/

64%

Acceptance

10,225

Students

#207

Ranking

$43K

Tuition

A−

Rating

#17 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Washington State University

Pullman, WA | wsu.edu/

80%

Acceptance

35,394

Students

#513

Ranking

$27K

Tuition

A

Rating

#18 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH | https://udayton.edu/

81%

Acceptance

12,544

Students

#216

Ranking

$45K

Tuition

B

Rating

#19 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS | www.k-state.edu/

94%

Acceptance

23,353

Students

#803

Ranking

$26K

Tuition

A

Rating

#20 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Marquette University

Milwaukee, WI | www.marquette.edu/

82%

Acceptance

12,601

Students

#177

Ranking

$46K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#21 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Gonzaga University

Spokane, WA | https://www.gonzaga.edu/

73%

Acceptance

8,397

Students

#169

Ranking

$47K

Tuition

A

Rating

#22 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY | www.buffalo.edu/

67%

Acceptance

35,509

Students

#264

Ranking

$28K

Tuition

B

Rating

#23 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID | www.uidaho.edu/

74%

Acceptance

13,852

Students

#945

Ranking

$28K

Tuition

C+

Rating

#24 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

Ohio University-Main Campus

Athens, OH | https://www.ohio.edu/

87%

Acceptance

31,679

Students

#1217

Ranking

$22K

Tuition

B

Rating

#25 2024 Best Colleges for Health and Fitness

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV | www.wvu.edu/

84%

Acceptance

30,045

Students

#895

Ranking

$25K

Tuition

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