Bachelor's · Macomb, Illinois
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Western Illinois 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 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $35,360
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $57,547
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $29,590
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $42k (likely $42k – $57k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $18k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in IL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 5 years (likely 3.7–6.9)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$55k (likely −$130k – $25k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $189k (likely $40k – $363k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 49%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- ≤ 20% / ≤ 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
- Biology HL
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign$67,782
- Elmhurst University$66,244
- Illinois State University$62,112
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- University of Illinois Chicago$55,247
- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale$55,039
- Northern Illinois University$54,207
- McKendree University$52,784