Bachelor's · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Augsburg University worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 8.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $43,973
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $59,613
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $27,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $99k (likely $99k – $125k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $19k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8.5 years (likely 5.4–16.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$137k (likely −$253k – −$3k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $99k (likely −$134k – $396k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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AP classes
- AP Biology
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- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
- Biology HL
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Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in Minnesota
- Bethel University$68,202
- St Olaf College$66,314
- Winona State University$63,303
- University of Minnesota-Duluth$63,269
- St Catherine University$61,048
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities$60,931
- Gustavus Adolphus College$57,870
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$57,506
- Bemidji State University$57,357
- Southwest Minnesota State University$54,554