Bachelor's · Charleston, Illinois
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Eastern Illinois University worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ 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 6.3 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $42,005
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,245
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $20,087
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $54k (likely $54k – $73k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 6.3 years (likely 5.0–8.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$94k (likely −$164k – −$44k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $109k (likely −$14k – $225k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 50%
- 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 / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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Students heading toward sports, fitness & wellness majors like this one often take these classes. Every school offers a different mix, so check with your counselor.
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 Eastern Illinois University
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$95,880
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$81,372
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- Industrial Production Technologies/Technicians (Master's)$76,047
- Educational Administration and Supervision (Master's)$72,758
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$72,220
- Finance and Financial Management Services (Bachelor's)$70,704
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Master's)$69,772
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$66,840
- Political Science and Government (Master's)$63,359
- Marketing (Bachelor's)$62,994
- Public Health (Master's)$62,821
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in Illinois
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$67,782
- Elmhurst University$66,244
- Illinois State University$62,112
- North Central College$60,018
- Benedictine University$56,576
- Concordia University-Chicago$55,309
- University of Illinois Chicago$55,247
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$55,039
- Northern Illinois University$54,207
- Western Illinois University$53,576