Bachelor's · Lynchburg, Virginia
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Liberty 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 slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 11.4 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $37,952
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $54,846
- 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
- $124k (likely $124k – $147k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $15k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in VA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 11.4 years (likely 9.5–14.5)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$184k (likely −$240k – −$143k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $16k (likely −$93k – $128k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 64%
- 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 Liberty University
- Medicine (Doctoral)$176,742
- Religious Education (Doctoral)$133,142
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$125,557
- Design and Applied Arts (Master's)$112,935
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Doctoral)$108,233
- Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations (Master's)$107,828
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Master's)$107,245
- Air Transportation (Bachelor's)$102,096
- Management Information Systems and Services (Master's)$101,349
- Air Transportation (Master's)$96,169
- Industrial Engineering (Bachelor's)$94,928
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$92,809
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in Virginia
- University of Virginia-Main Campus$81,110
- William & Mary$68,992
- Roanoke College$65,112
- Shenandoah University$64,373
- George Mason University$63,672
- James Madison University$63,065
- Bridgewater College$55,288
- University of Lynchburg$53,009
- Old Dominion University$52,482
- Longwood University$50,990