Build on your background. Create your career.
Work with outstanding faculty. Experience extraordinary educational opportunities. Utilize the resources that only a major research university with a world-class medical campus can offer.
- Open professional doors through our child life and clinical exercise physiology MS tracks.
- Prepare for doctoral work—at Iowa or elsewhere—with our thesis-based MS track.
- Earn your PhD in your area of interest and expertise.
Many of our graduate students are supported through teaching assistantships on a competitive basis. Research assistantships are also available through individual faculty members, and we offer scholarships and fellowship opportunities on an annual basis.
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PhD in Health and Human Physiology
Our PhD in Health and Human Physiology program offers you the flexibility to pursue your scholarly interests, working with faculty mentors in their areas of expertise.
Visiting our campus
We invite you to visit us in Iowa City. You can see for yourself the world-class resources we offer as a major research university with an 800-bed teaching/research hospital and comprehensive health sciences campus.
We host an open house for prospective graduate students early in the spring semester, and you can also plan to visit another time. We're happy to give you a tour of our facilities and campus, arrange one-on-one meetings with faculty members and research labs of interest, and include you in one of our bi-weekly departmental research seminars and/or social events with current graduate students.
If you are interested in visiting our department—at our open house or another time—please call us at 319-384-4664 or email us at clas-hhp@uiowa.edu. We'd love to have you!
Thesis and dissertation preparation
We want you to be aware of the expectations set forth by our department. We strongly encourage you—whether you're a prospective or current graduate student—to read the graduate student handbook for your program, the UI Graduate College manual, and the other applicable resources below.
These resources contain important information about your program, including mandatory deadlines:
- Manual of Rules and Regulations of the Graduate College
- Graduate College section of the General Catalog
- Preparing your thesis or dissertation
If you have additional questions, please contact our graduate program director, Dr. Kara Whitaker.