Health, Sport, and Human Physiology | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Your pathway to the health professions

Prepare for your health and wellness career with Iowa's research and training programs.

Why Iowa?

Our professors will teach you the science, medicine, and social awareness necessary for a successful career in the health professions. You'll have resources and opportunities that only a world-class research university with a comprehensive teaching and research hospital can offer.

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Find your path

The health professions are wide open and growing, so we offer lots of options for achieving success. Begin your journey now.

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Advance your career

Open professional doors. Further your education. Earn your MS or PhD. Whatever your goal, you'll have the instruction, training, and opportunities to succeed.

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Learn from expert faculty

Our faculty brings national academic respect and real-world professional experience into our classrooms and labs.

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You belong here

As a health, sport, and human physiology student at Iowa, you'll get the best of both worlds—a health sciences education preparing you for your career and a broad liberal arts education showing you the world.

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"I found a home in Health, Sport, and Human Physiology at Iowa. My professors have taken the time to learn about me and my peers–and they genuinely care. I have always dreamed of being in a helping profession and the faculty here are helping me achieve my goal.”
- Kalie Williams, HSHP student at Iowa

Write your story

You might be laser-focused on a specific career in the health and wellness sciences. Or maybe you want to see your options and uncover your professional path along the way. However it begins, you can write your own story at Iowa. Apply and begin your personal journey of exploration and discovery.

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# 1

Most popular UI undergraduate department

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45 %

Alumni with human physiology major accepted into graduate/medical school

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The only nationally endorsed child life program in Iowa

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Only Sport Rec Management program in Iowa at a major state university

"The NFL is a league that some people work their whole lives to get into, for me to get in right away and move up quickly is truly amazing. Iowa did a great job exposing us to the business of sports. Now my office is next to some of the folks I first met during a sport and recreation management field trip.”
- Alex Martin, Sport and Recreation Management B.S. 2016, Kansas City Chiefs executive

News and announcements

How studying abroad transformed the college experience for these CLAS students

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Through internships, coursework, and cultural immersion, these CLAS students discovered new perspectives and meaningful learning experiences that extended far beyond campus.

11 UI students awarded Dr. Ken Magid Scholarship to intern abroad

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Undergraduate students participate in internships abroad in summer 2026, thanks to support from the Dr. Ken Magid Scholarship. The fund was established by the late Linda Baker (BA English ’68) in memory of her former mentor, author and child behaviorist Dr. Kenneth Magid.

New undergraduate-to-graduate pathways help CLAS students accelerate their health, sport, and human physiology careers

Monday, August 3, 2026

The Department of Health, Sport, and Human Physiology is expanding opportunities for undergraduate students with two new undergraduate-to-graduate degree pathways.

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