Admission Requirements
Master of Arts in Health and Kinesiology
To be considered for admission to the Master of Arts degree program in Health and Kinesiology, an applicant must meet the following criteria:
- Meet all University and Graduate School admission requirements.
- Regular admission submit a score of 800 or better on the General Test of the GRE (Verbal and Quantitative).
- A student not eligible for regular admission may be admitted with provisional status
in two ways:
- A GRE Score of 700 to 799.
- A score of 1250 or better based on a formula 200 times the last sixty hours or cumulative undergraduate grade point average plus the General Test (Verbal and Quantitative) score on the Graduate Record Examination.
- Applicants for the Masters of Arts in Health and Kinesiology are required to have completed a baccalaureate degree. The undergraduate degree should be in health or kinesiology or a related field (e.g. nursing, dietetics, biology), or should have included adequate preparation for graduate study of health and kinesiology. Applicants whose undergraduate degree is in a field other than health and kinesiology may be required to complete a maximum of 21 hours of undergraduate courses recommended by the department. All students are required to have completed 4 hours of human anatomy and physiology.
- Graduate students enrolled in the Kinesiology concentration may not transfer in more than 6 semester hours from another university and/or program.
- Graduate students enrolled in the other three concentrations (Exercise Science, Health Studies, and Health Promotion and Exercise Science) may not transfer in more than 9 semester hours from another university and/or program.