If you plan on majoring in athletic training, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #187 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Athletic Training Schools in Missouri ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 173 degrees in athletic training annually.
Your choice of athletic training 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 athletic training 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Athletic Training Schools in Missouri list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the athletic trainer degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Saint Louis University if you want to pursue a degree in athletic training. Located in the large city of Saint Louis, SLU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
There were about 7 athletic training students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in athletic training has to take a look at Missouri State University - Springfield. Missouri State is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Springfield.
There were about 24 athletic training students who graduated with this degree at Missouri State in the most recent year we have data available.
Take your associate degree in an allied health field to the next level with this specialized transfer friendly online bachelor of science from Southern New Hampshire University.
It's difficult to beat WellSpring School of Allied Health - Kansas City if you wish to pursue a degree in athletic training. WellSpring - Kansas City is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large city of Kansas City.
There were about 20 athletic training students who graduated with this degree at WellSpring - Kansas City 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).