NWU HHP has the versatility that enables us to offer majors in athletic training, exercise science, health and fitness, physical education and sports management. We equip 150+ HHP students to reach their unique goals. We help prepare outstanding physical therapists, athletic trainers, occupational therapists, chiropractors, PE teachers, coaches and sports business leaders.
Nebraska Wesleyan is the perfect place to push yourself—to stretch the limits of your own performance. And NWU Health and Human Performance (HHP) is where you can earn a degree doing what you love.
We build your knowledge and experience with integrated athletic and fitness internships, the latest science and equipment, and highly specialized course offerings.
NWU HHP is renowned for preparing students for success in their field. Our athletic training majors have the region’s highest undergraduate success rate on the certification exam at 91 percent.
Roughly half of our exercise science majors go on to professional school in areas including physical therapy, physician assistant, chiropractic and occupational therapy.
Our sport management majors receive the experience and background in business administration to be viable professionals upon graduation.
Our HHP faculty includes a recipient of the 2014 Athletic Trainer Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers Association, a health educator with decades of experience who’s led trips to study sports culture in Australia, and a cellular and integrative physiologist who began publishing research in national journals as an NWU student.
Former Nebraska Wesleyan University track & field student-athlete Bre Geary has been selected as one of the American Rivers Conference (A-R-C) nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Rachel Maceri, assistant professor of exercise science, has been named Nebraska Wesleyan University's Advisor of the Year for 2023-24.
One student nominator says Maceri helped her pass a chemistry course that was required for her degree after she considered dropping the class after the first exam.
Associate Professor of Health and Human Performance Samantha Wilson was named the 2022-23 Faculty Advisor of the Year.
The award was established by the Academic Affairs Committee of the Student Affairs Senate to recognize and reward faculty for the pursuit of excellence in advising.
