2025 Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Bachelor's Degree Schools in California

Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #95 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for exercise physiology and kinesiology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 bachelor's degrees in exercise physiology and kinesiology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on exercise physiology and kinesiology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other exercise physiology and kinesiology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized exercise physiology and kinesiology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for exercise physiology and kinesiology students working on their bachelor's degree.

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When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Bachelor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology in California

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology.

Top California Schools for a Bachelor's in Exercise Physiology

1

University of California - Irvine
Irvine, CA

12 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology needs to take a look at University of California - Irvine. UC Irvine is a fairly large public university located in the city of Irvine.More information about a bachelor’s in exercise physiology and kinesiology from University of California - Irvine

2

California Baptist University
Riverside, CA

27 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology has to look into California Baptist University. Located in the city of Riverside, Cal Baptist is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in exercise physiology and kinesiology from California Baptist University

Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	521	199
Oregon	343	11
Hawaii	172	0

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Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Related Rankings by Major

One of 13 majors within the Physiology & Pathology Sciences area of study, Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Exercise Physiology

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Physiology	246
Other Physiology, Pathology, & Related Sciences	112

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.