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Sport Sciences and Physical Education School Facts
  • The United States Sports Academy features the largest sport education program in the world and was founded partly in response to the below-expected performance of the US at the 1972 Munich Olympics.


  • The first departmental major in Anatomy, Physiology, and Physical Training was created at Harvard University in 1891.


  • The Cooper Institute is named after Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper, an Air Force physician and former tack star who introduced America to the term "aerobics" back in the 1960s.


  • Grambling State University has the only master's program in Sport Administration offered at a historically black college or university (HBCU) in the US.


  • Sport in Society at Northeastern University is a social justice organization that uses sport to create social change both nationally and internationally.


  • A professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University helped design the new Speedo LZR racing swimsuits worn at the Beijing Olympics.


  • Check out our database of American Sport Sciences and Physical Education Schools and Programs


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