Bachelor's · Saint Paul, Minnesota
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at St Catherine 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 4.8 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
- $65,573
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $81k (likely $81k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in MN
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 4.8 years (likely 3.4–7.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$32k (likely −$138k – $74k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $251k (likely $44k – $480k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 67%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- Sports, Exercise and Health Science HL
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Other majors at St Catherine University
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Master's)$144,037
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$127,178
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$105,176
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$99,367
- Health Professions Education, Ethics, and Humanities (Master's)$93,077
- Economics (Bachelor's)$87,821
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Bachelor's)$85,514
- Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions (Bachelor's)$83,211
- Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions (Doctoral)$79,042
- Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$75,526
- Public Health (Master's)$68,314
- Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems (Master's)$67,910
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in Minnesota
- Bethel University$68,202
- St Olaf College$66,314
- Winona State University$63,303
- University of Minnesota-Duluth$63,269
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities$60,931
- Gustavus Adolphus College$57,870
- Minnesota State University-Mankato$57,506
- Bemidji State University$57,357
- Augsburg University$55,499
- Southwest Minnesota State University$54,554