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Sports Coaching and Development

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Overview

This page covers Sports Coaching and Development across the departments we work with, including what each asks for and what it charges. It is a one year foundation course, the year before an undergraduate degree begins.

Teaching in Sport and Exercise Sciences covers testing and data analysis, which is where most graduate roles now sit. We currently work with 2 universities on this course across 2 cities.

Send us your transcript and English result and we will list the departments that would consider you, with the entry condition on each.

Entry requirements

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.

Fees and funding

Where you can study it

2 universities run this course

Entry terms differ between departments. An adviser will tell you which of these you are a realistic candidate for.

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Birmingham City University WIN Education Recruitment Partner Birmingham 2 years Enquire now
University of South Wales WIN Education Recruitment Partner Pontypridd 2 years Enquire now

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Where you will study

Birmingham City University

We work with 3 other universities in Birmingham, so settling on the place still leaves a choice inside it.

The region
England
Universities we list in Birmingham
4 this one among them
Courses there, all told
541 across every university we list in it
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