The five-year course enables students to design effective exercise and nutrition programs for healthy individuals, elite athletes, and people with a disability or lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, diabetes or hypertension. Students will learn to coach people to meet specific goals and provide advice on a healthy balanced diet, weight management, food allergies or intolerances, as well as conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and digestive problems. The combined degree incorporates significant clinical and professional fieldwork opportunities, providing hands-on experience with real clients in a supervised environment. This allows students to integrate the academic components of the course with the practical abilities required of their chosen profession. Honours is a fourth year of study, during which you will conduct a research project and write a thesis under the supervision of a member of the faculty’s academic staff. Admission is competitive, and candidates who are offered a place in the honours year must have demonstrated consistent, high level performance throughout their studies, be eligible for the award of a pass degree at a commendable standard, and be judged to have the aptitude to conduct an independent research project.

Graduates of the combined Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise and Sport Science) and Master of Nutrition and Dietetics are scientists with a wide range of theoretical knowledge, practical skills and expertise. The career paths followed by graduates are many and varied and depend mostly on the specific interests and aspirations of the individual. The areas of employment entered by our recent graduates include sports performance (sport scientist, coach, trainer), exercise in the workplace, fitness industry (corporate fitness manager, personal fitness promotion), occupational health and safety, injury prevention (occupational ergonomics). Specific nutrition and dietetics related careers include hospital, community and private practice dietetics, food industry and food science. Careers in community health promotion, non-government organisations involved in health and disease, public health, public relations and the media would be relevant using either or both professional qualifications.