2025 Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Schools in North Carolina
4Colleges in North Carolina
367Exercise 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for exercise physiology and kinesiology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 367 degrees in exercise physiology and kinesiology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology School
The exercise physiology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology rankings. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology Schools in North Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology in North Carolina
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.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public university located in the city of Charlotte. A Best Colleges rank of #367 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNC Charlotte is a great university overall.
There were about 183 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at UNC Charlotte in the most recent data year.
East Carolina University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. Located in the city of Greenville, ECU is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #275 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means ECU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 122 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at ECU in the most recent year we have data available.
Queens University of Charlotte is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology. Queens is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Charlotte. This university ranks 31st out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were approximately 23 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at Queens in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology needs to look into Gardner - Webb University. Located in the rural area of Boiling Springs, Gardner - Webb is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 30th out of 93 schools for overall quality in the state of North Carolina.
There were roughly 22 exercise physiology and kinesiology students who graduated with this degree at Gardner - Webb in the most recent year we have data available.
One of 13 majors within the Physiology & Pathology Sciences area of study, Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).
The exercise physiology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Exercise Physiology and Kinesiology rankings. 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.
