By major · Health Science
Where can your student actually study health science?
Health science is the general health-careers major, the one a student picks when the field is clear and the job title is not. In California it is mostly a CSU degree: 15 colleges in California report a bachelor's health science program in federal outcome data or a health science admit rate in the UC/CSU data, and every CSU campus that published a first-year admit rate for Fall 2025 admitted more than 8 in 10 applicants. The largest is Sacramento State, where 3,463 students applied and 3,261 were admitted. No UC campus reports a health science major of its own in this data, so the choice here runs through the CSUs and the private colleges.
At a glance · California
- 15 colleges in California report a bachelor's health science program in federal outcome data or a health science admit rate in the UC/CSU data.
- Hardest reported gate: California State University-East Bay — Health Science, Fall 2025: 382 applied, 328 admitted (85.9%).
- Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Dominguez Hills — 95.4% (348 applied, 332 admitted, Fall 2025).
- Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Dominican University of California, $82,911.
- Lowest average net price with aid: California State University-San Bernardino, $4,564 per year.
A college on this page with no first-year row is not reporting a separate admit rate for health science, and that is a different thing from the door being closed. Where a CSU does report one, the figure is that campus's own count of first-year applicants and admits for the major. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · Show all 225 colleges nationwide →
Hardest reported gate
Health Science, Fall 2025: 382 applied, 328 admitted
Highest reported admit rate
Health Science, Fall 2025: 348 applied, 332 admitted
Highest earnings, 4 yrs out
median, graduates of this program
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. 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 | Program admit rate |
Campus admit rate |
Net price with aid |
Full price |
Earnings 4 yrs out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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California State University-East Bay
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Health Science
Fall 2025: 382 applied, 328 admitted
|
85.9% | 97% | $9,320 | $22,850 | $68,231 |
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California State University-Channel Islands
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Health Science
Fall 2025: 381 applied, 353 admitted
|
92.7% | 93% | $9,849 | $23,561 | $58,396 |
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California State University-Fresno
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Health Science
Fall 2025: 14 applied, 13 admitted
|
92.9% | 96% | $7,000 | $20,095 | $76,268 |
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California State University-Sacramento
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Health Science
Fall 2025: 3,463 applied, 3,261 admitted
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94.2% | 94% | $9,338 | $22,945 | $67,182 |
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California State University-Dominguez Hills
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Health Science
Fall 2025: 348 applied, 332 admitted
|
95.4% | 91% | $8,615 | $23,191 | $51,549 |
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Dominican University of California
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 96% | $35,333 | $71,751 | $82,911 |
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California State University-Stanislaus
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 98% | $6,067 | $19,739 | $80,630 |
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San Diego State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 34% | $15,364 | $27,780 | $73,095 |
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California State University-Chico
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 94% | $14,480 | $26,283 | $69,303 |
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San Francisco State University
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 96% | $12,278 | $26,488 | $65,252 |
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Azusa Pacific University
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 80% | $22,212 | $56,313 | $64,797 |
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California Baptist University
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 74% | $26,285 | $54,038 | $59,801 |
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California State University-Fullerton
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 87% | $6,555 | $18,269 | $54,244 |
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California State University-San Bernardino
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 98% | $4,564 | $17,427 | $45,977 |
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California State University-Long Beach
CA · Public · Test-optional
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Not reported by the college system | — | 47% | $10,440 | $22,679 | — |
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); 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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