School of Health Sciences and Human Performance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ithaca College's iconic fountains, lit green at night.

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.

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Prepared for Anything

IC Students Learn to Lead in Public Health Crises and Mental Health

Tariq Ahmad standing on a field

The Man Behind the Roster

Tariq Ahmad ’04, MS ’12 builds a winner with the San Francisco 49ers.