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Where Muscles and Minds Are in Motion

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Your Hands-On Education

Powered by a community of over 1200 Cyclones dedicated to careers in health-related professions, the Department of Kinesiology combines academic rigor with hands-on experience that will power your future career. We believe your education should included all the classes you need and a place to practice what you’re learning. It’s why our 90,000-square-foot facility is home to classrooms, teaching labs, physical activity areas, and well-equipped research spaces where undergraduates routinely work with researchers who are changing the world through health and wellness studies.

Major in Kinesiology and Health

One of the largest majors at Iowa State, a degree in Kinesiology and Health can be tailored to your future career goals by choosing one of five options within the major.

  • Pre-Health Professions Option

    A pathway for future health professionals interested in becoming doctors, chiropractors, dentists, occupational therapists, optometrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, and physician assistants/associates.

  • Exercise Science Option

    Graduate prepared for roles in cardiac rehab, health clubs, sports enhancement facilities, and other organizations focused on human movement.

  • Community and Public Health Option

    Help people live healthier lives through community and public health programming where you’ll design, promote, and carry out strategies that help prevent illness and encourage health.

  • Physical Activity and Health Promotion Option

    Curriculum covers behavioral and physiological aspects of physical activity and nutrition, preparing you for careers in areas like schools, hospitals, and other community agencies.

  • Physical Education Teacher Education Option

    A deep understanding of human movement combined with learning the best practices of teaching, this option prepares you for teacher licensure in physical education.

Major in Athletic Training

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3+2 Program

Our accredited athletic training program prepares you to become a certified athletic trainer.

You’ll enter Iowa State in the pre-athletic training program where our progressive clinical and coursework-designed program prepares you to be a specialist in prevention, treatment, evaluation, and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses