By major · Sport Management
Where can your student actually get into sport management?
Sport management is the business degree built around teams, venues and events. 484 colleges awarded a bachelor's in it in 2022-23, and only 8 colleges in California do, so this is one of the majors where a family should expect to look out of state. The biggest program in the country that year was the University of South Carolina, with 296 graduates.
At a glance · California
- 8 colleges in California offer a bachelor's sport management program; every one of them awarded the degree in 2022-23 (federal IPEDS completions).
- Largest programs by graduates in 2022-23: Ashford University (37), Pepperdine University (20), Menlo College (16).
- Lowest average net price with aid: Concordia University-Irvine, $28,115 per year.
No college on this page publishes an admit rate into sport management. Neither the University of California nor the CSU reports the major by name, and they are the only two systems in the country that publish admit rates by major 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 484 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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Ashford University
CA · Private for-profit
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
37 graduates
|
— | — | $31,266 | — | — |
|
Pepperdine University
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
20 graduates
|
— | 50% | $58,098 | $93,512 | — |
|
Menlo College
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
16 graduates
|
— | 68% | $31,100 | $72,020 | — |
|
California Lutheran University
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
13 graduates
|
— | 89% | $30,109 | $68,426 | — |
|
University of Antelope Valley
CA · Private for-profit
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
13 graduates
|
— | — | — | — | — |
|
Saint Mary's College of California
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
11 graduates
|
— | 89% | $30,378 | $77,659 | — |
|
Concordia University-Irvine
CA · Private nonprofit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
2 graduates
|
— | 60% | $28,115 | $58,682 | — |
|
Westcliff University
CA · Private for-profit · Test-optional
|
Not reported by the college system |
Sport and Fitness Administration/Management
1 graduate
|
— | 45% | $35,426 | $44,210 | — |
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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