Do you need a masters degree to be a strength coach for a college program?

Diff. schools have diff qualifications. But the majority do not have Master's degrees.

I must disagree Jon. From what I've seen, many are requiring a Masters' Degree to go along with certification.

You may be able to get an internship or something along those lines, but I would say that a Masters' Degree is almost a necessity as well as NSCA certification.

Its not true. The large programs yes. But if you look at entire NCAA (D1-3) most don't even have strength coaches, let along a Masters degree.

I didn't make my post up. Just how it is right now.

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Originally posted by Jon Doyle:
Its not true. The large programs yes. But if you look at entire NCAA (D1-3) most don't even have strength coaches, let along a Masters degree.

I didn't make my post up. Just how it is right now.

Jon,
You are right and it is something that I hope changes over time. The industry is sufficiently developed that every college program should be able to put a person in there that actually knows what they are talking about and is properly educated and certified. I am so tired of hearing from "trainers" whose claim to fame is that have worked out for X years, but they never actually studied anything. Ugh.
OBC

Yeah it's too bad. Just comes down to funds unfortunately.

Agreed, training for X amount of years does not mean you know what your doing. With that said, "trainers" who can simply copy/paste and have read a few articles online, yet have never trained anyone, are equally to blame for the enormous amount of misinformation floating around.

whats scary is that these so called trainers claim to have worked out for so many years,end up being the brian macnamees and Brian Anderson(bonds trainer,I think thats right?)of the world