Bachelor's · Dallas, Texas
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Southern Methodist 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 7.5 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $57,441
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $67,496
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,750
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $169k (likely $169k – $169k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $31k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.5 years (likely 5.9–9.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$57k (likely −$141k – $41k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $325k (likely $141k – $541k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 83%
- 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
- AP Psychology
- AP Statistics
IB Higher Level
- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
- Biology HL
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Other majors at Southern Methodist University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$188,716
- Information Science/Studies (Master's)$173,816
- Computer Systems Analysis (Master's)$172,353
- Systems Engineering (Master's)$163,769
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$155,769
- Law (First professional)$153,614
- Real Estate (Master's)$147,770
- Applied Mathematics (Master's)$144,761
- Manufacturing Engineering (Master's)$141,296
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$140,799
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$133,852
- Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations (Master's)$133,137
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- Rice University$87,404
- The University of Texas at Austin$66,580
- Schreiner University$64,439
- Texas A&M University-College Station$62,888
- Abilene Christian University$62,645
- Abilene Christian University-Undergraduate Online$62,645
- Saint Edward's University$61,741
- Lubbock Christian University$61,286
- Texas Tech University$59,001
- Texas Woman's University$57,819