2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Health and Fitness

HEALTH AND FITNESS DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Health and fitness is a somewhat in-demand subject. On average, each discipline grants about 6,000 yearly undergraduate degrees; last year, 10,378 people received four-year degrees in health and fitness, making it the United States of America's 47th most popular area of study for undergraduates. 479 of those degrees were granted by one college, California State University-Northridge. 4,491 of those degrees were conferred at institutions in California.

Choosing the best school for you could potentially not be easy, due to the fact that four-year degrees in health and fitness are available at 279 schools in the nation. 45.4% more institutions offer bachelor's degrees in health and fitness than the average area of study, making it the 81st most widely offered degree in America.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While last spring, 90% of degrees in health and fitness were undergrad degrees; 10% were graduate degrees. Health and fitness is the 113th most popular postgrad degree in the United States, with 1,136 degrees awarded. To put that in context, the average subject is 2.4 times more popular among graduate students than health and fitness.

In Total, 11,514 students received a bachelor's or higher in health and fitness last year.

ONLINE HEALTH AND FITNESS DEGREES

345 of those 11,514 students (3%) completed their degrees entirely remotely - 83 undergraduate students and 262 postgrads. As you can tell by now, it's rather unique to find an American undergraduate majoring in health and fitness online. It is the 127th most popular online discipline with 82.8% less online students than the average subject. For postgraduate students, it ranks 85th, and is 57.5% shy of the nation's average (616).

Austin Peay State University​ awarded the most online four-year degrees in health and fitness in the US (27).

Further, Colleges from Tennessee conferred the most online undergrad degrees in health and fitness last spring (27). By itself, the state accounts for 33% of the US' remote students.

Only 0.8% of all undergraduate degrees in health and fitness are completed online, (23.1% for graduate degrees). Eastern Oregon University's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of online health and fitness majors than any other school in the nation (4.4%). 27 students in their 606 student class were awarded an online undergraduate degree in health and fitness. They offer 58% of their degrees exclusively online, and had 1,365 enrolled online undergraduates last fall. That's 48% of the student body.

There are 7 colleges nationwide with a remote college degree in health and fitness, making it the 81st most commonly available online degree in the nation. Nearly 2 percent of colleges providing the degree even have a remote option, and 71% of the institutions giving out the degree online are public. The other 29% are private. Oklahoma is number one in the country in providing online choices, with 2 of the programs based there.

If you hope to study health and fitness completely remotely, we recommend you look into Austin Peay State University, as it has the 64th best health and fitness program in the country. It also supplies an additional 36 degrees entirely remotely, so their systems are likely pretty good. Furthermore, they have 1,448 remote undergrads, which is 15% of the student body.

PARTIALLY ONLINE HEALTH AND FITNESS DEGREES

• Health and fitness is the 40th most in-demand partially online undergrad degree in the nation
• Health and fitness is the 77th most universally available partially online undergraduate degree around the nation
• Last May, 3,237 students completed a bachelor's or higher in health and fitness partially online
• Philander Smith College's​ last undergraduate class contained a higher percentage of partially online health and fitness majors than any other US institution (9.8%)
• Idaho is home to the most colleges offering partially online four-year degrees in health and fitness of any state (2)
• The average major hands out 320 yearly postgrad degrees partially online

IN-PERSON HEALTH AND FITNESS DEGREES

• Health and fitness is the 50th most pursued in-person bachelor's degree in the nation
• Health and fitness is the 128th most universally offered fully in-person undergrad degree countrywide
• 69.68% of all undergraduate degree in health and fitness are done completely in-person
• Bethany College's​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of fully in-person health and fitness majors in the USA (14.95%)
• California graduates more health and fitness majors exclusively in-person than any other state (2,751 undergrad degrees awarded last May)
• The average field is offered in-person at around 20 institutions