By major · Athletic Training
Where can your student actually get into athletic training?
Athletic training is a licensed health profession, the person on the sideline who treats the injury rather than coaches the team. It is a small bachelor's major: 114 colleges awarded a bachelor's in it in 2022-23, and only 4 colleges in California are on this page. The largest program in the country that year was Florida State, with 56 graduates.
At a glance · California
- 4 colleges in California offer a bachelor's athletic training program: 3 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 1 more carry program earnings in federal outcome data but no 2022-23 degree count under these program codes.
- Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: Fresno Pacific University (2), California State University-Long Beach (1), San Diego State University (1).
- Lowest average net price with aid: California State University-Northridge, $7,021 per year.
No college on this page publishes an admit rate into athletic training. The CSU lists the major at one campus, Cal State Northridge, but publishes no applicant or admit counts for it, and the UC does not list it at all, so every student here is applying against the campus admit rate. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · All 115 colleges nationwide →
Lowest net price with aid
average for aid recipients, per year
Every college, one row each
Colleges with a reported gate into the program come first, hardest first; the rest are sorted by earnings, then by graduates. Degree awarded is the program the college conferred bachelor's degrees in during 2022-23, with the number of graduates (federal IPEDS completions). Program admit rate is the college system's own number for this major (UC Information Center, CSU Chancellor's Office). Net price is the average paid by aid recipients; full price is the cost of attendance. Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians four years after the degree.
| College | Gate into the program | Degree awarded · graduates 2022-23 |
Program admit rate |
Campus admit rate |
Net price with aid |
Full price |
Earnings 4 yrs out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Fresno Pacific University
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Athletic Training/Trainer
2 graduates
|
— | 58% | $13,630 | $44,249 | — |
|
California State University-Long Beach
CA · Public · Test-blind
|
Not reported by the college system |
Athletic Training/Trainer
1 graduate
|
— | 47% | $10,440 | $22,679 | — |
|
San Diego State University
CA · Public · Test-blind
|
Not reported by the college system |
Athletic Training/Trainer
1 graduate
|
— | 34% | $15,364 | $27,780 | — |
|
California State University-Northridge
CA · Public · Test-blind
|
Not reported by the college system | — | — | 93% | $7,021 | $20,485 | — |
Sources: UC Information Center ↗ (first-year applicants and admits by major); CSU Chancellor's Office ↗ (applications and admissions by major, first-time freshman and transfer; groups under 10 suppressed); IPEDS Completions ↗ (bachelor's degrees conferred by 6-digit program, 2022-23, first major); federal College Scorecard field-of-study data (earnings, debt); IPEDS (admit rate, net price, cost of attendance). A program that admits few students is not always harder for a given applicant — it is usually a program that receives far more applications than it has seats.
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Athletic training ends in a licence, so the questions that matter are about accreditation and clinical placements rather than admit rates. Ask each program on this page, and check the price: in California it starts at $7,021 a year after aid at Cal State Northridge. Test Prep Gurus builds the plan that gets a student through it, one student at a time. prepgurus.com · 949.229.5359