2025 Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Schools in Pennsylvania
4Colleges in Pennsylvania
151Exercise Physiology Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #143 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 151 degrees in exercise physiology and kinesiology annually.
Choosing a Great Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology School
Your choice of exercise physiology and kinesiology school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for exercise physiology and kinesiology schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology in Pennsylvania
The schools below may not offer all types of exercise physiology degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology needs to take a look at Gettysburg College. Gettysburg is a small private not-for-profit college located in the town of Gettysburg. A Best Colleges rank of #314 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Gettysburg is a great college overall.
There were about 66 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at Gettysburg in the most recent data year.
Ursinus College is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. Located in the suburb of Collegeville, Ursinus is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 49th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 30 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at Ursinus in the most recent year we have data available.
Saint Francis University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Loretto. This university ranks 82nd out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 11 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at Saint Francis in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Chestnut Hill College if you want to pursue a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. CHC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #736 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CHC is a great college overall.
There were about 21 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at CHC in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).