Bachelor's · Costa Mesa, California
Is Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness at Vanguard University of Southern California worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Graduates typically don't earn back the cost within 20 years, compared with the no-degree baseline.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $32,332
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $23,000
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $99k (likely $99k – $99k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- −$6k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- Not within 20 years in most scenarios
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$345k (likely −$404k – −$297k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- −$407k (likely −$518k – −$302k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 55%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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- 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
- California Lutheran University$59,820
- Concordia University-Irvine$59,648