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

Samantha Clavel

Aug. 26, 2025

Alumni Q+A: Samantha Clavel (B.S. ’21) is empowering local adolescent girls to be more active

Clavel uses the lessons from her health, physical education and exercise science curriculum to promote healthy living in local girls and mentor current students.

Bashar Hauter, Kashaf Baig, Oniya Smith and Naeem Ahmed are among the VCU students taking part in the Summer Academic Enrichment Program this year. (Contributed photo)

Aug. 4, 2025

Summer program steels students for demanding health sciences studies

VCU’s Summer Academic Enrichment Program has a proven history of giving undergraduates a critical boost toward pursuing doctoral degrees in dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and physical therapy.

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.

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