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.
Unless you’ve lived in poverty, it’s nearly impossible to understand the day-to-day challenges that come with it.
And while a simulation inside Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Knight Fieldhouse can’t replicate what happens in real life, it still gives NWU students a stark look at the issues many families in poverty face every day.
