Faculty of Health

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Want to make a difference that improves lives? Join this tight-knit community of students and professors dedicated to preventing disease, healing injuries, and optimizing the quality of life for people around the world. Learn relevant skills and concepts to prepare you for medical school, professional and graduate programs, or careers in health and leisure. You'll graduate with a degree that will help you leave a lasting legacy of health and well-being.

Students, professors, and researchers in the Faculty of Health are called the “people people” for a reason. Although we may have different passions, approaches, and paths, one thing ties us all together: a commitment to protecting and promoting health and well-being.

Sound like you? You’ll fit right in.

Faculty of Health programs

Meet current students

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Have questions about what it's like to be a student in your program? Connect with current students by video or phone – or view profiles of current students.

53%of Health Sciences and Kinesiology graduates go on to professional and graduate school

Top 50in the world for anatomy & physiologyQS World University Rankings by Subject (2022)

98%of Health grads are employed or pursuing further education within a year of graduating

DISCOVER YOUR
"TRUE CALLING"

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Therapeutic Recreation student, Esther, found her "true calling" through exploring different career options during her co-op work terms. Esther said "it's through real-world exposure that I've gained my deepest insights".

EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES WITH CO-OP

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Christina's winter co-op job took her on an unexpected path. She originally joined the Health Studies program to prepare for medical school. After her co-op placement with Health Canada she realized her passion for working with public policy. Now Christina is applying to a Master's program in public health.

PUT YOUR SKILLS TO PRACTICE

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Recreation and Sport Business grad, Nathaniel, got to put the skills he learned throughout his degree into practice in his fourth-year capstone course. Nathaniel was able to help MLSE LaunchPad come up with an innovative solution to increase attendance among under-served youth in free sports programming.