Bachelor's · Moorhead, Minnesota
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Minnesota State University Moorhead worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,766
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,195
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $75k (likely $75k – $97k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $13k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 8 years (likely 5.3–13.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$139k (likely −$218k – −$60k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $22k (likely −$125k – $185k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 53%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 20%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Other majors at Minnesota State University Moorhead
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$101,989
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$76,259
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- Finance and Financial Management Services (Undergraduate certificate)$72,369
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$72,151
- Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Graduate certificate)$68,020
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
- Augsburg University$55,499