Overview
Sport and Exercise Science is offered widely in the UK, so the useful comparison is between departments rather than between countries. It is a one year foundation course, the year before an undergraduate degree begins.
Teaching in Sport and Exercise Sciences combines laboratory physiology with applied coaching or management work.
If you are comparing this against two or three other courses, send us all of them. We will set the entry terms and the fees side by side.
Careers opportunities
This sector pays modestly at entry and hires on practical competence, so the accreditations and hours logged during the degree matter more than the classification. A great deal of the work is in health, education and the public sector rather than in elite sport.
Roles graduates go into
- Strength and conditioning coach
- Sport or exercise scientist
- Performance analyst
- Rehabilitation practitioner
- Development or community officer
- Physical education teacher, with a teaching qualification
Where they work
- Clubs, academies and national governing bodies
- Leisure operators and health clubs
- NHS and private rehabilitation services
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Local authority sport development
After the course
Accreditation with BASES for sport scientists, or the UKSCA for strength and conditioning, and both require logged supervised hours after graduation.