MSAT Admission Partnership for UIC Students

UIC and NPU Athletic Training Partnership

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition and North Park University (NPU) developed a partnership to enroll UIC College of Applied Health Sciences graduates and/or alumni in NPU’s Master of Science in Athletic Training (MSAT) program through an admission partnership agreement.

Criteria for Admission

  • NPU reserves 2 spaces in the MSAT cohort every year for UIC College of Applied Health Sciences (CAS) students/alumni. Potential candidates are identified by the UIC Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition faculty. Any UIC CAS student, above and beyond the 2 reserved spaces, will receive the same opportunity for acceptance into NPU’s MSAT program as any other applicant via the Athletic Training Centralized Application Service (ATCAS) system.
  • All prerequisites for NPU’s MSAT may be completed at UIC. Transfer credits approved by UIC to meet the associated course requirements are also permitted.
  • NPU will retain its criteria for admission and includes:
    1. An earned bachelor’s degree from UIC (by MSAT start date)
    2. Overall GPA of 3.0 (4-point scale) or better
    3.  A “C” or better in all required pre-requisite courses
    4. Current CPR/AED certification
    5. 50 observational hours approved by an athletic trainer
    6. Completion of Technical Standards Agreement
    7. Resume and personal statement
    8. (1) letter of recommendation must be from the certified athletic trainer who supervised the majority of the applicant’s observational hours.

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