Prospective students must apply to both the Graduate School and the School of Health Studies. In both cases, the applicant must submit an official transcript for undergraduate and graduate studies. Additionally, as part of the application to the Graduate School, an official report of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores must be submitted except:
Health Promotion (HPRO): An applicant seeking admission to the HPRO concentration is not required to submit GRE scores. However, official GRE or other standardized test scores may be requested or submitted to support an application.
Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE): An applicant seeking admission to the PETE concentration may opt to submit official scores of the PRAXIS II exams in lieu of the GRE.
An applicant must also submit the following to the School: 1) SHS Graduate Admission Application Form, 2) two letters of recommendation, and 3) a 300-500 word statement of goals including identification of the intended area of concentration. (Contact the school's academic services coordinator for application forms. School of Health Studies application forms are also available on-line at www.memphis.edu/shs/students/grad_admission.php.
An applicant must have graduated with a minimum baccalaureate GPA of 2.5.
Completion of an appropriate undergraduate major and a strong background in discipline-specific courses:
Exercise, Sport and Movement Sciences: anatomy and physiology, health sciences, exercise physiology, anatomic kinesiology, biomechanics, and motor learning
Health Promotion: science-oriented courses such as, but not limited to, nutrition, biology, biochemistry, health sciences, chemistry, and psychology
Physical Education Teacher Education: anatomic kinesiology, anatomy and physiology, biology, exercise physiology, health sciences, motor learning, nutrition, and sport psychology
Completion of undergraduate work deemed by the concentration committee as prerequisite to graduate courses.
All applicants who will be attending the University on a student visa and who are not native speakers of English and are not graduates of The University of Memphis must supply a minimum score of 550 on the paper, a 210 on the computer-based, or 79 on the internet based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The minimum acceptable IELTS score is 6.0.