Curriculum

WHAT MAKES COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY UNIQUE?

A Personalized Approach to Your Education. At the center of our program is personalized education where we focus on you as an individual and what you need to maximize your potential. One way we achieve this approach is through our online 2nd year in the program, which allows students to have an immersive clinical experience anywhere in the country. Your immersive clinical experience could focus on being closer to home or could focus on an experience that will help you achieve your career goals within athletic training, or both! In addition, to this personalized approach to clinical experiences in your second year, we also focus on "soft skills" which include communication, emotional intelligence, and conflict management skills that employers are looking for and that will differentiate our graduates from others. One thing that isn't personalized...our tuition. Everyone pays the same in-state tuition rate, regardless of where you call home. This makes Colorado Mesa University, one of the least expensive graduate Athletic Training programs in the country!

See our Plan of Study

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

The MSAT program includes six semesters and begins in mid-June each year. For our incoming cohort in June 2025, our required academic orientation took place on Saturday, June 21, 2025. The first day of classes began on Monday, June 23, 2025. For next years cohort (starting June 2026), we anticipate the academic orientation will be on Saturday, June 20th, and the first day of classes will be on Monday, June 22nd.

MSAT Program Calendar for 2025-2026:

Term	First Year Students	Second Year Students
Summer	·        Classes begin June 23 (6-weeks) ·        1st clinical experience begins around August 4 (2-weeks)	·       Classes begin May 27 (8-weeks)
Fall	·        Classes begin August 18 (full-semester) ·        1st clinical experience continue for 8-weeks until October 11th ·        2nd clinical experience begins October 13th (8-weeks)	·       Classes begin August 18 (full-semester) ·       1st immersive clinical experience begins around August 1st and ends around Dec 12th
Spring	·        Classes begin January 20th (full-semester) ·        3rd clinical experience begins January 20th (8-weeks) ·        4th clinical experience begins March 23 (8-weeks)	·       Classes begin January 20th (full-semester) ·       2nd immersive experience begins around January 20th and ends May 9th ·       Return to Campus on May 11-16th

 

The University academic calendars can be found online for specific holidays, add/drop/withdraw deadlines, and final exam schedule

See our Student Handbook (PDF)