In high schools, colleges and universities, professional sports programs, corporate and industrial sites, and sports medicine clinics, athletic trainers are keeping weekend, scholastic, and professional athletes healthy and ready for the next big athletic event. The athletic trainer specializes in preventing, evaluating, managing, and rehabilitating athletic injuries in physically active people.

Students complete an extensive clinical experience as part of the Athletic Training Program at Towson University. This clinical experience is completed over a seven-term period beginning in the student's freshman year at the university. All clinical experiences are directly supervised in a variety of athletic training-related clinical sites, including the Towson University Athletics department, local high schools and universities, and sports medicine clinics. The clinical education requirement allows the student to combine didactic classroom theory with actual "hands on" application in a supervised, practical laboratory experience.