About the course

If you have a passion for team or individual sports, or enjoy being fit and physical active, this course gives you the necessary knowledge and skill-sets to pursue a wide range of career pathways within the sports sector, including sports coaching, sport development, health and fitness management, teaching, and entering the growing sector of social entrepreneurship.

This degree aims to develop your coaching, management and leadership skills, putting you in a position to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity. The course syllabus is aligned to the priorities of Sport England's new 10-year strategy and global initiatives, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and is therefore highly relevant to your future employability.

Areas of study include practical and theoretical aspects of sports coaching; applied sport development and project management; sport and exercise psychology; sport and social diversity; and research in sport. Your employability is further enhanced with opportunities to gain valuable experiences working alongside our partner organisations - such as the Bedford Blues Foundation – managing and delivering real-world projects.

How will this course improve my career prospects?

Our graduates have been successful in gaining employment within a wide range of sport-sector areas including: community, local authority and sport governing-body sport-development teams; professional sport clubs; coaching enterprises; international sport development; project and event management; health and fitness management; teaching in schools, further education colleges and universities; and social and community leadership roles.

Students have also developed their own sport-sector businesses or gained employment within a range of non-sport-sector fields, including the youth development and social services; the Forestry Commission; retail; and the uniformed services.