This study assesses enabling conditions and student demand and proposes improvements to physical education (PE) courses at Saigon University. Data comprised a survey of 1,250 students across four disciplinary clusters, consultations with 28 lecturers and experts, a facilities inventory, and a review of professional staff profiles. The results showed that 92.6% of students agreed or strongly agreed that the current athletics content should be replaced with music-based exercise (M = 4.56, SD = 0.66), all consulted professionals considered this replacement necessary or highly necessary. The most preferred electives were badminton (68.4%), swimming and water rescue (62.5%), pickleball (56.8%), and dancesport/aerobics (49.2%). However, the university has neither an athletics track nor a swimming pool, while its staff include one lecturer specializing in music-based exercise/dancesport and five lecturers holding national-level pickleball coach-referee certifications. The study proposes restructuring Course 1, retaining adequately supported sports, piloting pickleball and dancesport, and postponing swimming as a regular course until stable arrangements for facilities, safety, and equitable access are in place.