Bachelor's · Thousand Oaks, California

Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at California Lutheran University worth it?

Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 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 7.4 years.

Earnings 1 year after graduating: $35,201; Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Earnings 4 years after graduating: $64,254; Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
Typical federal debt at graduation: $22,000; NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
Net cost to graduate, all families: $112k (likely $112k – $114k); AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
Earnings bump, year 4: $24k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA; 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
Payback: 7.4 years (likely 5.5–10.2); Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
10-year net return: −$85k (likely −$168k – $7k); Today's dollars
20-year net return: $228k (likely $30k – $428k); Today's dollars
Odds of finishing (school-wide): 69%; Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26

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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 California Lutheran University

Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$150,979
Finance and Financial Management Services (Master's)$101,050
Educational Administration and Supervision (Doctoral)$97,243
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Accounting and Related Services (Bachelor's)$89,573
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology (Doctoral)$87,918
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Bachelor's)$83,310
Student Counseling and Personnel Services (Master's)$82,204
Marketing (Master's)$81,263
Special Education and Teaching (Master's)$81,041
Public Administration (Master's)$77,919
Computer Science (Bachelor's)$77,030

Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at other schools in California

Sonoma State University$67,351
Saint Mary's College of California$66,265
Pepperdine University$65,100
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$64,579
National University$62,748
California State University-San Marcos$61,252
California Baptist University$60,816
San Diego State University$59,914
Concordia University-Irvine$59,648
California State University-Sacramento$59,142