Is a Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness degree worth it?
Across 542 schools, graduates of Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness earn a median $52,611 five years out on $24,000 of debt. Graduates most commonly work as Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors (modeled from the federal CIP-to-SOC crosswalk). These earnings and debt figures come from the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Median 5-yr pay
$52,611
Median debt
$24,000
Years to pay off
4.4
at 10% of pay
AI task exposure
14%
GPT-4-era overlap
10-yr job growth
+9.5%
BLS 2024–2034
Gender pay gap
5.5%
$56,352 vs $53,234
Net price
$19,606/yr
Debt-test failures
4.7%
of programs
'Real' premium
−$6,802
vs avg, adjusted
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Explore Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness in full →Data: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, BLS OEWS, O*NET, AI-exposure measures (Eloundou/AIOE), Zillow. Earnings reflect federally-aided graduates; see the full story for methodology and limitations.