Bachelor's · Garden City, New York
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Adelphi University 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 5.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $33,478
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $70,895
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $25,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $113k (likely $113k – $130k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $32k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in NY
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5.7 years (likely 4.8–7.1)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $7k (likely −$71k – $81k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $404k (likely $233k – $602k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 71%
- 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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AP classes
- AP Biology
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- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
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Other majors at Adelphi University
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$137,582
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$124,820
- Accounting and Related Services (Master's)$114,578
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$112,945
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$101,097
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$100,895
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$97,175
- Medical Illustration and Informatics (Master's)$96,747
- Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language (Graduate certificate)$87,011
- Mathematics (Bachelor's)$86,028
- Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas (Master's)$85,752
- Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$80,788
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in New York
- Manhattan University$78,264
- Syracuse University$68,219
- Pace University$67,866
- CUNY Queens College$62,602
- Manhattanville University$61,395
- St. John's University-New York$60,265
- Mercy University$60,049
- CUNY Lehman College$57,091
- Canisius University$57,036
- State University of New York at Cortland$56,466