Whittier College
Whittier, CA · private, nonprofit · 764 undergraduates
Which tennis teams does Whittier College field?
Whittier College, in Whittier, CA, fields 2 tennis teams, men's tennis and women's tennis, competing in NCAA Division III as a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
The men's roster is the larger of the two, 10 players against 4, in the school's latest Equity in Athletics filing.
Whittier College's men's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 10 players in 2025, down from 12 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference median of 14, by 26%, and 17% below the NCAA Division III median of 12. Whittier College lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for men's tennis, which works out to about 5 players per coach, in line with the NCAA Division III median of 5.3.
Whittier College's women's tennis roster is smaller than it was: 4 players in 2025, down from 8 in 2020. That 2025 roster is well below the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference median of 11, by 64%, and about the same distance from the NCAA Division III median. Whittier College lists 1 head coach and 1 assistant for women's tennis, which works out to about 2 players per coach, well below the NCAA Division III median of 5, by 60%.
Each team page below covers roster size and its trend, coaching staff, spending per player against conference and division medians, and what the school and town are like for a recruit.
How does Whittier College fund its athletes?
Whittier College reported 290 athletes across all sports in its 2025 Equity in Athletics filing, 159 men and 131 women, close to an even split.
It reported no athletically related student aid for that year, which is what to expect from NCAA Division III: any help with cost here comes through academic or need-based aid, not a tennis scholarship.
Recruiting spending was $8,994 for men's sports and $10,079 for women's, roughly balanced between the two, or about $57 and $77 per athlete.
What is Whittier College like academically?
Whittier College is a small private, nonprofit university offering graduate degrees that admits 81% of applicants, open to most applicants by national standards, where the median college admits 78%.
The full cost of attendance is around $63,664 a year, well above the national median of $25,497, but the average family paid about $25,757 after grants and scholarships, in the top quarter nationally, so aid covers roughly 60% of the sticker price on average.
60% of students finish their degree within six years, above the median of 52% and 66% of first-year students return for a second year.
Ten years after enrolling, former students earn a median of $59,492, among the top quarter of colleges.
What can you study at Whittier College?
No single field dominates: the largest, Business, Management & Marketing, is 17% of degrees, with Liberal Arts & Sciences, Biological & Biomedical Sciences and others close behind.
The bachelor's degree programs below awarded the most degrees in the most recent College Scorecard field-of-study data.
- Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness (46 degrees)
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (43 degrees)
- Biology, General (31 degrees)
- Human Development, Family Studies, and Related Services (24 degrees)
- Psychology, General (23 degrees)
- Social Sciences, General (21 degrees)
- Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (20 degrees)
- Fine and Studio Arts (19 degrees)
- Political Science and Government (18 degrees)
- Social Work (16 degrees)
What is Whittier, CA like to live in?
Whittier College sits in Whittier, a suburb of a large city of about 86,000 people in Los Angeles County, California.
The median household in Whittier earns about $92,374, which is about the California median ($96,334) but above the national median ($78,538).
Home values are in step with the rest of California, around $751,700 and rents are typical for the state, about $1,829 a month.
Commutes run long, about 33 minutes against a national average near 27, and most people drive.
The age mix is close to the national picture, a median of 38, with 23% under 18 and 15% aged 65 or over.
29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, fewer than the California average of 37%.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Whittier College have a tennis program?
- Yes. Whittier College fields men's tennis (NCAA Division III, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) and women's tennis (NCAA Division III, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference), per its Equity in Athletics filing to the U.S. Department of Education.
- Where is Whittier College?
- Whittier College is in Whittier, CA, in the Far West region of the United States.
- How much does Whittier College cost?
- The College Scorecard lists an average cost of attendance of $63,664 a year, and an average net price of $25,757 after grants and scholarships.