Bachelor's · Kenosha, Wisconsin
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Carthage 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
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 9.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $38,657
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $58,896
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,250
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $112k (likely $112k – $112k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in WI
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 9.4 years (likely 6.7–14.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$150k (likely −$232k – −$61k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $77k (likely −$94k – $288k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 66%
- 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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IB Higher Level
- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
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- Carroll University$77,095
- University of Wisconsin-Madison$74,963
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse$58,233
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- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee$53,974
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire$53,907
- Lakeland University$52,998
- Marian University$52,277
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