About This Course

This Sport and Exercise Science MSc aims to provide graduates with the opportunity to take a multi-disciplinary approach to their development. The degree will provide you with the skills, knowledge and flexibility of thought to develop an understanding of the physiological and psychological approaches to performance enhancement (e.g., competitive athletes and casual exercisers). It will also provide you with insights into the approaches that may be taken when working within rehabilitation settings (e.g., healthy ageing, chronic disease). It has been designed with a strong emphasis on the application of theory to professional practice.

Professional Accreditation

You’ll be able to use some of the knowledge and skills that you’ll acquire on this Sport and Exercise Science MSc to prepare for the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) supervisory experience training, which is normally a pre-requisite of the Association’s professional accreditation.

BASES also organise an annual student conference. Some of our former MSc students have won prestigious awards for ‘Best Postgraduate Verbal Presentation’ and ‘Best Postgraduate Poster Presentation’ at the BASES Student Conferences. These awards are open to MSc and PhD students from all UK Universities and the fact that our students have repeatedly won awards is an indication of the excellent quality of the teaching and research training you’ll experience on our course

Careers

All our postgraduate programmes are designed (with further training where appropriate) to enhance the career prospects of Sport, Health and Exercise Science graduates.Career destinations of Bangor postgraduates include: the Home Country Sports Institutes, National Governing Bodies, the Olympic Medical Institute, Professional sports teams and organisations, the fitness industry, the NHS (hospitals and Primary Care Trusts), Teaching and Education (after completing a Postgraduate Certificate of Education). Further postgraduate study (ie Doctoral research) is another vocational route.

This specific Sport and Exercise Science MSc will equip you with a variety of skills to work across the broad sport and exercise sector. For example, graduates may progress to careers or further education in sport, health, exercise, education (e.g., teaching, after postgraduate training) or research (e.g., progress to PhD / Research Fellow careers). The transferable skills attained on this programme may also assist you to pursue a career in other vocations for example the armed forces, emergency services, or business.