Where can your student actually get into kinesiology?

• 866 colleges nationwide offer a bachelor's kinesiology program: 796 awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions); 70 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: California State University-Fullerton (541), California State University-Northridge (397), Indiana University-Bloomington (395).
• 47 of them are in California, the one state whose public systems (the University of California and the CSU) publish an admit rate into the major.
• Hardest reported gate into the program (only the UC and the CSU publish one): California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo — Kinesiology/Physical Education, Fall 2025: 2,162 applied, 262 admitted (12.1%).
• Highest reported admit rate into the program: California State University-Monterey Bay — 97.7% (910 applied, 889 admitted, Fall 2025).
• Highest median earnings four years after the degree: Rice University, $87,404.
• Lowest average net price with aid: San Diego Christian College, $992 per year.

A missing first-year row belongs to a track, not to the whole major: Fresno State admits freshmen into kinesiology itself, and it is the narrower exercise physiology track there that reports admissions on the transfer side only, so a freshman starts as a kinesiology major and applies into exercise physiology later. Where the gate is real it shows up in the major's own first-year row, 12.1% at Cal Poly SLO and 33.5% at San Diego State, against 97.7% at Cal State Monterey Bay. Admits are not enrollees. At most UC programs students are admitted to the campus, not the major. This page as JSON → · California only (47 colleges, with the UC and CSU gates) →

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.