Athletic training majors receive extensive laboratory instruction and practice under the direct supervision of faculty members.
Athletic injuries and their recognition, prevention, care, management, and rehabilitation are the domains of certified athletic trainers. Our nationally accredited academic major combines rigorous coursework in basic and applied sciences and other allied health-related disciplines along with equally rigorous, supervised, clinical experiences to provide a comprehensive and challenging education.
Your exposure to the profession begins in your sophomore year, through work with the clinical AT staff and the athletes on the College's 25 intercollegiate sports teams. It continues your junior and senior year, rotating among multiple clinical instructors -- both on and off campus -- to give you intensive exposure to differing types of injuries, and results in a minimum of 720 hours of supervised clinical education.
Graduates of our program have traditionally scored well above the national average on the Board of Certification examination and are highly sought after by the nation's leading graduate programs and a wide array of professional employers. As the field of sports medicine has grown and flourished, career choices have increased in a wide array of settings, from professional, collegiate, and secondary school athletic teams to physician’s offices, hospitals, sports medicine clinics, performing arts, industry, law enforcement, and the military. The program also prepares you to pursue graduate or professional education in such areas as athletic training, physical therapy, exercise physiology, sports science, or medicine.