Kinesiology, Exercise Science and Sport Management
Human movement, exercise and the business of sport. ⚠⚠⚠ Two quite different degrees share this classification and the BIGGER one is business: Sport and Fitness Administration is 833 Florida credentials a year against Kinesiology and Exercise Science's 711 — and UF and Florida State, the two largest producers, award only the management one.
The degrees this program covers
⚠⚠⚠ READ THE REQUIRED-COURSE LIST, NOT THE DEPARTMENT NAME. Sport and Fitness Administration (31.0504) produces 833 credentials at 8 Florida public institutions — UF 335, Florida State 268, UNF 57, UWF 24 — and it is a BUSINESS degree: marketing, finance, facility operations, event management, sport law. Kinesiology and Exercise Science (31.0505) produces 711 at six — UCF 360, FAU 188, FGCU 70, UWF 64, USF 23, FIU 5 — and it is the movement science: exercise physiology, biomechanics, anatomy, assessment. ⚠⚠ Neither is a lesser version of the other, and UF and Florida State award no exercise science bachelor's under 31.0505 at all. ⚠ Health and Physical Education General (31.0501) adds 58 at UWF and FAMU — the teacher-preparation end. ⚠⚠⚠ AND THE ROW ALMOST NOBODY TAKES IS THE MOST DIRECTLY VOCATIONAL: Physical Fitness Technician (31.0507) is an ASSOCIATE degree at Northwest Florida State, Chipola, Tallahassee and Pensacola State, and it produces 27 graduates a year for an occupation with 68,000 annual openings nationally whose entry-level education is a high school diploma. ⚠ There is no licence and no programmatic accreditor in this family. What employers check is an NCCA-accredited CERTIFICATION, which the degree does not confer — so a degree here has to be chosen for what it opens afterwards (clinical exercise physiology, graduate school, or management), not for access to the entry-level job.
Careers this program leads to
Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end,
and the sources behind it.
Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers.
⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree
keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.
16 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023,
at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Certificate (<12 weeks), Certificate (12 weeks-1 year), Doctorate (research/scholarship), Master's, Postbaccalaureate certificate.
A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited
its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing
program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.
Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only —
the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is
strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023
will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.
Updated 23 September 2026.
⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always
read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.