Abstract:
This study attempted the comparison of physical fitness levels between physical education and music students of hosanna college of teacher education hadiya zone,SNNPR,Ethiopia.Physical fitness, especially health related physical fitness is one aspects closely associated with good health. Participation in regular physical activities is rapidly decreased specially in the college. In collage level professional physical education courses practical and theoretical are offered for both physical education and music only.to this research and dependant variables of physical fitness and control variables' such as sex difference for group age, weight, height, attitudentt, academic achievement, balanced diet, and other external factors. To attain this objective 80 research subjects are selected from third year physical education and music group students as the subject of the research from total population of 2407 of college students both by simple random and purposive sampling method were selected, and the data were collected through measure by their respective measuring device and procedures.To do this qusi experimental was designed and statistical tools of independent sample t test and one sample t-testwith 5% error ,two tail hypothesis test from the SPSS version 20 were implemented. The main objective of this study was investigated comparison of physical fitness levels between physical education and musicstudents. Finally relative to research subjects generally there is no significance difference between two groups in selected physical finesses variables in independent sample t-test but significance difference of both groups from standard range mean value in single sample t-test .when we compare the mean relatively physical education groups have better performance.Based on this the researcher recommend that students should participate in regular physical exercise in order to enhance their fitness level.