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2023 Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools

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Finding the Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree School for You

Health & Physical Education is the #30 most popular major in the country with 9,742 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 47 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best doctor's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

Check out the phys ed doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.

Top 10 Best Health & Physical Education Doctor's Degree Schools

Our analysis found University of Michigan - Ann Arbor to be the best school for health and physical education students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. U-M is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best health and physical education schools in the United States. UT Austin is a fairly large public school located in the city of Austin.

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Out of the 47 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Sports Academy landed the # 3 spot on the list. The Academy is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Daphne.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Texas A&M University - College Station is a great place for health and physical education students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a very large student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Columbia, UofSC is a public college with a very large student population.

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Iowa State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Iowa State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Ames.

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Indiana University - Bloomington came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree health and physical education programs. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the city of Madison.

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Ohio State University - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for health and physical education students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

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#10

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

University of Iowa came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Health & Physical Education Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public school with a very large student population.

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Health & Physical Education by Region

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Far Western US
Southwest
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Health & Physical Education is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Phys Ed

Related Major Annual Graduates
Recreation Administration 441
Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 206
Other Parks, Recreation & Leisure Studies 35
Outdoor Education 28

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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).

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