Program Overview

Our BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science will equip you with the skills to achieve your potential as a practitioner within the sport and exercise industry; either helping leading athletes to achieve their potential or working with members of the public from a diverse range of backgrounds and circumstances to achieve their goals.

The course leads onto postgraduate study in areas such as the MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition and the MRes in Sport and Exercise Science. The course explores the science of sport and exercise, considering how disciplines such as nutrition, physiology, psychology, and biomechanics can be applied in the context of sports performance, physical activity, health, and wellbeing. You will study a range of discipline-specific and multi-disciplinary modules, equipping you with a diverse range of perspectives that will enrich your learning and enhance your career opportunities. You will gain a range of additional employability skills through working independently and collaboratively in communities of practice with your peers, teaching staff, and external stakeholders.

What's covered in this course?

It won’t just be about sport — you'll be looking at different aspects of health and people at opposite ends of the health spectrum. Sport and exercise is a large and expanding global industry, and levels of fitness and participation in physical activity are significant issues on the political agenda. Therefore, you’ll be trained to respond to the challenges facing society today, by exploring the profession and its disciplines in encouraging and supporting greater physical activity.

Endorsed by the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES), which is the professional body for Sport and Exercise Science, our practice-led course equips you with up-to-date insight that you can take into the work environment and make a positive contribution to modern society. You will be introduced to cutting-edge digital technologies, as well as the latest research in each of the disciplines. Our course provides the opportunity to complete a placement year — which could be within the UK or abroad — making your degree course 4 years in duration. Don’t worry if you are undecided on the placement year when you apply, you can decide once you have competed the first year of study on the standard course.