Our Exercise Science program – with its broad curriculum, numerous Cooperative Education and/or internship possibilities, and potential opportunities to conduct and present research at international and national conferences – will give you a competitive edge as you pursue your career goals!
Interested in a career such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, athletic training, chiropractic medicine, physician assistant, strength and conditioning, personal training, wellness, or dietetics? The Exercise Science major is ideal.
Our combination of curriculum — including exciting new rehabilitation courses — multiple Co-Op and/or internships experiences, and world-class research productivity make us uniquely suited to help students achieve their career goals.
From the moment students walk onto campus, we work with them on a career development plan and help them understand all the things it takes to reach their goal. We help them optimize their chance of being accepted into competitive professional or graduate schools, or obtain the career of their choice. We offer the prerequisite courses for acceptance into these programs, or to prepare students for a variety of other careers.
*Data provided by Job Center of Wisconsin's Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics for Physical Therapists.
Thanks to a generous gift from Lakeland University alum, Cliff Feldmann, the new Feldmann Exercise Science Laboratory includes an academic laboratory and a research laboratory outfitted with top-of-the-line equipment that includes:
This cutting-edge equipment allows interactive teaching of and research on force, power, balance, and muscle activation analysis during gait, sprinting, jumping, resistance training, and activities of daily living. These instruments can also be used to determine body composition, lung functioning, blood lactate accumulation, and metabolic capacity of athletic and untrained people.
Lakeland students and faculty have recently presented research at a variety of venues, including the conferences such as: International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, American College of Sports Medicine, National Athletic Trainer’s Association, National Strength and Conditioning Association, the American College of Sports Medicine-Midwest Regional Chapter, Wisconsin Physical Therapy Association, Wisconsin Chiropractic Association, Wisconsin Athletic Trainer’s Association, National Strength and Conditioning Association-Wisconsin State Chapter, and the International Conference on Sports Medicine, Physical Rehabilitation, and Physiotherapy.
In recent years, Exercise Science faculty and students have given 77 research presentations at professional conferences at the state, regional, national, and international levels. In order to present this research, students and faculty must complete a competitive submission process, often times against graduate student researchers. Lakeland University students presented the third most research of any institution in the world, at the 2020 International Society of Biomechanics in Sport, Annual Symposium.
Cooperative Education is all about hands-on learning outside the classroom. Students learn more by doing. They gain real-world knowledge and earn academic credit for hands-on professional work experience — and coursework is centered around these real-life experiences, situations and career goals.
Lakeland students explore their interests and, when they graduate, feel confident they will find a career in which they are passionate.
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*Exceptions to the above admission criteria may be granted for students with a cumulative GPA range from 1.75 to 1.99 if the academic experience that resulted in the less than 2.0 GPA was more than two years ago. Furthermore, typically students with a cumulative GPA range from 1.50 to 1.75 will only be considered if the poor academic performance experience that resulted in the less than 2.0 GPA was more than five years ago. Students receiving an exception will be admitted conditionally.
Associate Professor of Biology, Director LURE program
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