A program that focuses on the scientific study of the physiological processes involved in physical or motor activity, including sensorimotor interactions, response mechanisms, and the effects of injury, disease, and disability. Includes instruction in muscular and skeletal anatomy; molecular and cellular basis of muscle contraction; fuel utilization; neurophysiology of motor mechanics; systemic physiological responses (respiration, blood flow, endocrine secretions, and others); fatigue and exhaustion; muscle and body training; physiology of specific exercises and activities; physiology of injury; and the effects of disabilities and disease.
| A major in Exercise Physiology is highly relevant for the following careers. National averages for wages in each career is provided. |
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Top 22
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Exercise Physiology among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA | 30
(4.7%) |  |  | |
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| | Brigham Young University
Provo, UT | 266
(3.9%) |  |  | |
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| | Gordon College
Wenham, MA | 11
(3.4%) |  |  | |
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| | West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV | 125
(3.3%) | | - | |
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| | Saint Ambrose University
Davenport, IA | 19
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| | The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, MN | 16
(2.4%) | | | |
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| | University of California-Davis
Davis, CA | 132
(2.3%) | | | |
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| | Baldwin-Wallace College
Berea, OH | 17
(2.3%) | | | |
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| | Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, VA | 9
(2.2%) | | | |
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| | Ashland University
Ashland, OH | 12
(2.1%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2007-2008 graduating class.