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.
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Top 17
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Exercise Physiology among the 2006-2007
graduating class.
| | Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA | 32
(5.3%) |  |  | |
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| | Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, VA | 22
(4.9%) |  |  | |
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| | Brigham Young University
Provo, UT | 232
(3.3%) |  |  | |
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| | West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV | 108
(3.0%) | |  | |
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| | Saint Ambrose University
Davenport, IA | 13
(2.3%) | |  | |
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| | University of California-Davis
Davis, CA | 135
(2.2%) | | | |
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| | University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA | 93
(2.2%) | | | |
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| | The College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth, MN | 13
(2.1%) | | | |
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| | Concordia University-Wisconsin
Mequon, WI | 10
(1.8%) | | | |
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| | East Carolina University
Greenville, NC | 52
(1.5%) | | | |
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Degrees awarded represents the number of bachelor's degrees awarded among the 2006-2007 graduating class.