Duration: 3 years full-time, 4 years sandwich. This course runs in 2016/17. If you have an interest in applying scientific principles to the way the body functions during sport and physical activity, how it adapts to training and you want to know how to undertake exercise effectively, then this could be the course for you.

Some of our graduates have gone on to work with specific sports teams including CCFC and British Cycling. Others work with governing bodies of sport. The leisure industry is a major employer in the UK and many of our students go into managerial and service delivery roles in leisure and health centres as well as teaching. Graduates who are more interested in the medical and health applications of exercise science can go on to work within cardiac and other rehabilitation teams within the NHS, or with local councils within sports development or exercise for health schemes. All students are strongly encouraged to take a year out in a work placement or take a shorter work experience module in their second year studies. Both of these activities can significantly increase your employment prospects.