Deans Office
Smiddy Hall, 3rd Floor
Office Hours
8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
Cultivate Wellness
Bring your passion for health sciences, wellness, and physical fitness – along with your commitment to helping people of all ages and making a difference in your community – to ready yourself to join the next generation of the health care workforce. With us, you can hone essential career skills to be a transformative leader, practitioner, or researcher and contribute to creating a healthier world. Collaborate across disciplines focusing on holistic and equitable approaches to human health.
Programs
From health, exercise, and rehabilitation sciences to public health, choose from undergraduate majors that ready you for the workforce or graduate study (some with accelerated options), or join us at the graduate level for professional study.
Learn about the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
Start with a solid foundation in the classroom and grow from hands-on experiences in our practice labs and clinics. Capstone your studies with fieldwork, clinical placement, or internship.
About Us
We educate transformative health care professionals skilled at practicing in inclusive team-based environments.
Faculty and Staff
Our expert faculty guide you through challenges and work alongside you as teachers, mentors, scholars, and practitioners.
Experiential Learning and Career Preparation
In real-life and hands-on learning experiences, you’ll learn how to prevent injury and disease, design and implement treatment plans, consider social justice implications, and advance wellness for children, adults, and older populations.
Student Experiences
Gain confidence practicing in therapy and wellness clinics, anatomy and genetics labs, and via professional organizations.
Experiential Learning
Hone professional skills through fieldwork, clinical placement, or internship with supportive preceptors organized by IC.
Research
Collaborate on leading research with students and faculty. Present at professional conferences and at IC’s own academic symposium.
Hands-on Preparation
Gain practical experience in our health and wellness clinics, research laboratories, and Center for Life Skills.
1,075
Health Sciences and Human Performance
Student Enrollment
95%
Professional Certification Pass Rate
Prepare to excel in your profession as soon as you graduate.
700+
Active Field Placement Sites
Unlock your skills and prepare for real-world challenges in professional and clinical settings.
News from Our School
In HSHP, we create the world we want to live in through research projects, community engagement, and dedication to new opportunities that improve the lives of others. Here are just a few examples of how we put our passions to use every day.
Finding His Team Again: A Veterans Day Story
Army veteran Noah Bosket ’27, an Exercise Science Major (Strength and Conditioning), reflects on service, loss, and finding belonging again at Ithaca College.
Prepared for Anything
IC Students Learn to Lead in Public Health Crises and Mental Health
The Man Behind the Roster
Tariq Ahmad ’04, MS ’12 builds a winner with the San Francisco 49ers.