Bachelor's · Wilson, North Carolina
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Barton College worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $35,533
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- 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
- $103k (likely $103k – $139k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $373 a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NC
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$283k (likely −$370k – −$219k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$279k (likely −$413k – −$148k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 47%
- 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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IB Higher Level
- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
- Biology HL
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Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in North Carolina
- Wake Forest University$79,599
- Elon University$68,178
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$63,286
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh$60,488
- Gardner-Webb University$58,061
- Appalachian State University$55,594
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte$54,377
- Lenoir-Rhyne University$53,609
- Wingate University$52,822
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro$51,275