Use your hands, minds, and hearts to enhance quality of life.

At the UIW School of Rehabilitation Sciences, we seek students who are passionate about serving others and making a difference in their communities. The School of Rehabilitation Sciences reviews each completed application holistically, considering a variety of factors including academic achievement, letters of recommendation, leadership experiences, service, and your potential to contribute to the future of healthcare.

What Can I Do With This Degree?

Explore career opportunities available through our healthcare graduate programs and discover how each degree prepares you to make a meaningful impact in patient care, rehabilitation, and human performance.

Physical Therapy (DPT)

With a degree in Physical Therapy, you can work directly with patients to help them recover from injuries, surgeries, or chronic conditions. Physical therapists develop treatment plans designed to improve movement, reduce pain, and restore function.

Career Settings
  • Hospitals
  • Rehabilitation Centers
  • Outpatient Clinics
  • Sports Medicine Facilities
  • Schools
  • Home Healthcare Settings
Specialization Opportunities
  • Orthopedics
  • Pediatrics
  • Geriatrics
  • Neurology
  • Sports Rehabilitation

Additional opportunities include research, teaching, healthcare administration, and private practice ownership.

Occupational Therapy (OT)

A degree in Occupational Therapy prepares you to help individuals develop, recover, or maintain the skills needed for daily living and working. Occupational therapists support people of all ages, including those with disabilities, injuries, illnesses, or developmental conditions.

Career Settings
  • Hospitals
  • Schools
  • Rehabilitation Centers
  • Mental Health Organizations
  • Community Programs
  • Long-Term Care Facilities
Specialization Opportunities
  • Mental Health
  • Hand Therapy
  • Geriatrics
  • Community Practice

Experienced practitioners may pursue leadership, research, education, or program development roles.

Master of Athletic Training (MSAT)

A Master of Athletic Training prepares graduates to work with athletes and physically active individuals to prevent, evaluate, diagnose, manage, and rehabilitate injuries and medical conditions.

Athletic trainers play a critical role in sports medicine, healthcare delivery, injury prevention, emergency response, and return-to-performance planning across a variety of professional environments.

With experience, athletic trainers may advance into leadership, clinical education, administration, research, or specialized areas of sports medicine and human performance.

Career Settings
  • Secondary Schools
  • Colleges & Universities
  • Professional Sports Organizations
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Military Settings
  • Industrial & Occupational Environments
  • Performing Arts Organizations
Career Focus Areas
  • Emergency Care
  • Injury Prevention
  • Rehabilitation Planning
  • Return-to-Activity Decision Making
  • Human Performance
  • Sports Medicine
  • Clinical Education