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2023 Best Value Health & Physical Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$20,630 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Health & Physical Education Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 584 degrees and certificates were awarded to health and physical education students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #22 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Health & Physical Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for phys ed students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Health & Physical Education Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Check out the phys ed graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Health & Physical Education

Our 2023 rankings named California University of Pennsylvania the best value school in Pennsylvania for health and physical education students working on their graduate certificate. Cal U is a medium-sized public school located in the small suburb of California.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Cal U are $12,919 a year.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at California University of Pennsylvania

The excellent graduate certificate programs at West Chester University of Pennsylvania helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health and physical education schools in Pennsylvania. Located in the large suburb of West Chester, WCUPA is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at WCUPA are $11,898 per year.

Read full report on Health & Physical Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

#3

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Drexel University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value health and physical education schools in Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Drexel are $37,074 per year.

Full Health & Physical Education at Drexel University Report

Best Value Health & Physical Education Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Health & Physical Education Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 309
Maryland 16
New Jersey 79
District of Columbia 213
Delaware 23

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 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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