Why KHS?

Kinesiology and Health Sciences is a rapidly growing field for those who are passionate about healthy lifestyles, including human movement, and its relationship to enhancing quality of life and performance through the lifespan.

Our degree programs will prepare you for a number of exciting career opportunities in health care, fitness, research and more. Through in-class study, hands-on laboratories and real-world clinical experiences, you'll learn about the physiology and biomechanics of the human body, as well as the principles of disease trends and health care management.

Read more about the value of a degree in kinesiology and health sciences.

News

Students helped build houses out of water bottles. This helped reduce water pollution and served as great insulation for the tropical weather. (Contributed)

March 5, 2025

As a national model, VCU is facilitating service-learning study abroad for first-generation and other students

Building on last year’s debut, which gained attention in global education circles, a second set of TRIO students will visit the Dominican Republic over spring break to help communities.

VCU student Anirudh Mepperla (seated) and Kirk Richardson, associate professor in the Department of Focused Inquiry, with one of the nap pods recently installed on the fifth floor of Grace E. Harris Hall. (Thomas Kojcsich, Enterprise Marketing and Communications)

Oct. 30, 2024

The bearer of good snooze: Undergrad’s research project is behind the new nap pods on campus

Anirudh Mepperla and his Focused Inquiry professor, Kirk Richardson, put classwork into action.

A dream two decades in the making: VCU alum Alysha Morgan is ready for her Broadway debut. (Photo by Ted Ely)

Oct. 18, 2024

With Broadway debut, VCU alum Alysha Morgan is dancing into a childhood dream

The 2016 graduate is part of the cast bringing ‘A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical’ to the world-renowned theater district.

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