Bachelor's · Houston, Texas
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Texas Southern 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 in time: graduates typically recover the cost in about 4.7 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
- $60,669
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $24,500
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $76k (likely $70k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in TX
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.7 years (likely 3.1–7.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$27k (likely −$134k – $98k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $242k (likely $47k – $488k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 24%
- 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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- Rice University$87,404
- The University of Texas at Austin$66,580
- Schreiner University$64,439
- Texas A&M University-College Station$62,888
- Southern Methodist University$62,838
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- Abilene Christian University-Undergraduate Online$62,645
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- Lubbock Christian University$61,286
- Texas Tech University$59,001