Unconditional admission to the program requires the applicant to have a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university, an undergraduate cumulative GPA or 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale, and a composite score of at least 870 on the verbal, quantitative, and subject portions of the GRE or a score of 370 on the MAT.

Conditional admission may be gained with a lower grade point average, but the GRE or MAT score must be correspondingly higher. If the undergraduate GPA is between 2.25 and 2.49, the GRE score must be 935 or the MAT score 383. If the GPA is between 2.0 and 2.24, the GRE score must be 1,000 or the MAT score 394. Applicants with less than a 2.5 undergraduate GPA must submit test scores at the time of application, applicants with a GPA of 2.5 or above may submit test scores in the first semester of attendance, but it is preferable that the submit test scores at the time of original application. The student must remove conditional status by earning at least a B (3.0) average in the first nine hours of graduate courses, failure to achieve this average will result in withdrawal from the program. Candidacy cannot be attained until the full requirements for unconditional admission are met.

At least eighteen (18) hours of prerequisite study in Health, Physical Education, Recreation or a closely related field must be completed prior to admission to the program.

English Language Requirements-
IELTS – 6.0
TOFEL IBT – 71
TOFEL PBT – 525