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# Sport and Exercise Science

Turn your passion for sport and exercise into professional impact with a Sport and Exercise Science degree.

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Home students: £9,790*

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## Course Overview

Develop cutting-edge practical skills, apply sport science in real-world settings, and graduate ready for careers in performance, health, and rehabilitation.

Carve out your dream career with our Sport and Exercise Science course. Covering exercise physiology, sport psychology, biomechanics, strength and conditioning, sports nutrition and sports performance, it opens doors to a wide range of careers in sport and health.

### Endorsements

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Image: The Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES)

Endorsed by The Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES) and CIMPSA.

## Why study this course?

### Placements that power your career

Our embedded placement opportunities give you real-world experience. By working with industry partners, you graduate with proven experience and a competitive edge in securing employment or post-graduate study.

### Get qualified, get ahead

Gain respected CIMSPA qualifications, including Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, and Working with Long Term Conditions as you study.

### Acquire, practice, produce

Our 7-week block delivery structure allows you to fully immerse yourself in one subject at a time. Each block combines guided pre-session online learning, intensive in-person practical classes, and structured post-session consolidation, helping you build deeper understanding, through application of knowledge, application of skills and production of industry standard work.

## What you'll study

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Learn by doing from the start.

Combine science, practical coaching, and real-world problem-solving to understand performance, improve health, and begin developing your identity as a sport and exercise professional.

## Inside the body: From Muscles to Mind

Explore how the body and mind drive human performance, combining anatomy, biomechanics, and sport psychology. Build practical understanding and skills for health, fitness, coaching, and sport science careers.

## Translating Science into Performance

Bridge sport science and real-world performance by exploring training, nutrition, assessment, and psychology. Gain practical skills to design programmes, monitor progress, and support athletes to train smarter, recover better, and excel.

## Health and Fitness Foundations

Kickstart your fitness career by learning to design, deliver, and evaluate safe, effective exercise programmes. Gain practical skills, industry qualifications, and knowledge of training, nutrition, and psychology to support clients’ well-being.

## The Sport and Exercise Scientist – Skills for Success

Become a confident, career-ready sport and exercise scientist by tackling real-world challenges. Build skills in research, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving while exploring your professional identity and impact on health and well-being.

Dive deeper into performance, health, and research.

Apply biomechanics, physiology, psychology, and evidence-based practice to real-world challenges while gaining industry experience and developing advanced laboratory and professional skills.

## Human Fundamental Sciences: Application and Adaptation

Deepen your knowledge of how the body moves, performs, and recovers. Explore physiology, biomechanics, and psychology, apply science to real-world challenges, and develop practical skills for performance and rehabilitation.

## Human Performance: Application and Adaptation

Explore how athletes excel by combining body, mind, nutrition, and movement science. Apply real-world strategies, assess performance, and develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and practical skills for sport and exercise science.

## Applied Exercise for Health: Designing for Change

Learn to design safe, effective exercise programmes for people with long-term conditions. Apply evidence-based guidelines, develop practical, communication, and critical-thinking skills, and build professional credibility for health, fitness, and clinical careers.

## Research in Practice

Develop essential research skills and apply them in real-world sport or exercise settings. Learn methods, data analysis, and ethics while linking theory to practice through placements and professional observation.

Operate as a professional sport scientist.

Analyse complex performance data, design strategic interventions, complete your Grand Challenge project, and present solutions that mirror industry consultancy and applied practice.

## Advanced Sport and Exercise Science

Integrate physiology, biomechanics, and psychology to tackle complex sport and exercise challenges. Apply critical thinking, professional skills, and ethical reasoning to analyse performance, injury, and applied practice in real-world and research contexts.

## Optimising Human Performance

Turn science into action by applying physiology, biomechanics, and psychology to optimise performance. Develop evidence-based consultancy skills, design interventions, and tackle professional challenges in real-world sport and exercise contexts.

## Strength and Conditioning: Evidence-Based Training Methods

Learn to plan, deliver, and justify strength and conditioning programmes. Develop technical skills in strength, power, speed, and agility, applying evidence-based methods to improve performance and reduce injury risk.

## Research to Reality: Sport and Exercise Science in Practice

Apply your knowledge and skills to real-world sport and exercise challenges. Lead evidence-based projects, develop professional independence, and refine critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication to prepare for careers or postgraduate study.

We regularly review our courses to keep pace with changing skills and employer needs. If a review leads to significant changes, we’ll contact you to explain what’s changing for the coming year.

## Teaching and Assessment

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You’ll study in focused 7-week blocks, immersing yourself in one subject at a time. Pre-session materials build essential knowledge, while interactive practical workshops apply theory to industry-informed challenges reflecting real sport and health scenarios. Post-session tasks develop professional skills through reports, data analysis, and consultancy-style outputs. This approach strengthens employability, mirrors workplace practice, and prepares you for careers in performance, health, and research.

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All assessments are applied and designed to mirror professional sport and exercise science practice. Across the degree, you will complete practicals, laboratory assessments, case studies, consultancy-style reports, presentations, portfolios, and industry informed Grand Challenges. You will analyse real datasets, design evidence-based interventions, justify programme decisions, and present findings to academic and industry-style panels.

Assessments emphasise critical thinking, technical competence, ethical practice, and professional communication, ensuring you graduate with the confidence and practical skills required for employment or postgraduate study.

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Placements are embedded within the course to give you meaningful, real-world experience in sport, exercise, and health settings.

During Level 5 and Level 6, you will engage with industry partners, applying your scientific knowledge in professional environments while developing workplace skills such as communication, data collection, ethical practice, and problem-solving. You may work with sports teams, gyms, clinical exercise services, schools, or community health organisations.

These experiences strengthen your CV, expand your professional network, and often inform assessment projects. By graduation, you won’t just understand sport science, you’ll have practical experience demonstrating your readiness for employment.

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You’ll learn across the University of South Wales’s Sport Park and Glyntaff campus, immersing yourself in professional-standard physiology, biomechanics, and psychology laboratories.

Gain hands-on experience with metabolic carts, force platforms, motion capture systems, GPS technology, psychology equipment, and our state-of-the-art environmental chamber. Train in our dedicated strength and conditioning centre, biomechanics lab, notational analysis suite, indoor 3G pitch, and floodlit performance fields, each designed to replicate elite sport and applied health environments.

Using industry-standard software, digital analysis tools, and extensive library resources, you’ll test ideas, analyse data, and solve real-world challenges, building the confidence and practical expertise to apply science to performance, health, and wellbeing.

### Course Leader

### Dr Chris Marley

Meet Dr Chris Marley, course leader for the BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science programme. Chris is a senior lecturer in exercise physiology and has a passion for understanding brain health and how we can protect it throughout life. His research explores the powerful role of exercise in maintaining brain function as we age, alongside investigating how nutrition can support (or hinder) brain health.

Chris also examines the impact of head collisions in sport, with a particular focus on the effects of heading in football and its long-term implications for the brain.

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## Career Prospects

### Your future career

Graduates are prepared for careers in sport science, exercise physiology, performance analysis, health promotion, strength and conditioning, and rehabilitation. You may work with athletes, clinical populations, community health programmes, or professional teams, or progress to postgraduate study. The course develops the applied, analytical, and professional skills employers value. Potential career paths include:

Sport and performance scientist

Exercise Physiologist / Biomechanist

Strength & Conditioning Coach

Health promotion specialist

Personal Trainer

96% of USW Sport graduates are in work or further study fifteen months after graduating from USW.

Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022/23

Image: Sport student, Gregorio, stood in the strength and conditioning room at the Sport park

> "Having access to elite-standard testing equipment and learning how to apply this knowledge in practical settings has been key to building my confidence and employability."

Gregorio Estevez Marchesini, Sport and Exercise Science student

### Salary expectations

A Sport and Exercise Science degree can open opportunities across the wider sport sector. Sport careers offer strong earning potential:

Median wage

UK: £31.4k per annum

Wales: £29.8k per annum

Total jobs in 2025

UK: 644,306

Wales: 26,817

### Build your own career

Your career doesn’t have to mean working for someone else. If you want to freelance, start a business or develop an idea, USW Enterprise can help with one-to-one mentoring, practical workshops and funding opportunities through the USW Enterprise Startup Fund.

You’ll also have access to Startup Stiwdio spaces in our Cardiff, Newport and Treforest campuses. After graduating, you can get free membership for up to three years, giving you workspace and a network of other founders.

Whether you choose employment, freelancing or starting a business, we’ll help you build the skills, confidence and connections to move forward.

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### Industry partners

Our Sport and Exercise Science course connects you with top industry partners, including CASES, CIMSPA, the Football Association of Wales, Cwm Taf University Health Board, PureGym. Gain hands-on opportunities through exercise referral programs, gyms, nutrition companiesand professional clubs to give you real-world experience, preparing you for diverse careers in sport, health and performance.

## Entry Requirements

### Additional

The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.

### Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

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112 UCAS points or above

#### Typical qualification requirements

A Level:

BBC to include one A Level in Science, Mathematics, Physical Education or Psychology but to exclude General Studies

Welsh BACC:

C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and BB at A Level to include one A Level in Science, Mathematics, Physical Education or Psychology but to exclude General Studies

Distinction Merit Merit in a relevant subject

Access to HE:

Pass the Access to HE Diploma in Sport/Science with a minimum of 112 UCAS tariff points

### International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages .

International students Pre-Sessional English

### English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 4 overall and a minimum of 4 in each component or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages .

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages .

## Fees and Funding

UK Full-Time Fee £ 9,790

per year

UK Part-Time Fee £ 804

per 20 credits

Fees and funding Scholarships and bursaries Cost of living support

## [Button: Further information ]

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.

We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

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As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

International Full-Time Fee £ 17,200

## What sets us apart?

Top in Wales for quality in Sport Science.

Guardian University Guide 2026

Top university in Wales and 24th out of 123 universities in the UK.

Guardian University Guide 2027

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10 subjects ranked in the Guardian University Guide 2027 Top 10, including two at #1.

2nd in Wales for Graduate Prospects on track.

Complete University Guide

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Top in Wales for new business startups and 7th in the UK.

## How to apply

All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS

You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time).

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* Part-time, 6 years

## Advanced entry

If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.

Applicants accepted through advanced entry may study a different combination of modules to those advertised, as they will be joining a course already in progress. You will be contacted and advised about these modules once your application has been processed and an offer made.

## International admissions

International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.

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Step into a high-performance sport environment, from elite pitches and advanced labs to a fully equipped strength and conditioning suite. Everything here is designed to help you train, test and perform at your best.

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## Sport Park virtual tour

Our full-size indoor 3G pitch is built to the Fifa Pro standard and guarantees training all year round. We are the only university in England and Wales to offer this facility.

We also have a notational analysis suite and over 30 acres of playing fields. We have a sand-dressed 'AstroTurf' pitch, as well as a full-size FIFA approved 3G pitch. Our facilities are regularly used by international teams, such as the Wales national football team and Cardiff City Football Club.

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## Student Stories

> "One of the best aspects of my degree has been the work-based learning opportunities. I’ve worked with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in their cancer prehabilitation clinic, shadowing healthcare professionals and seeing firsthand how exercise interventions can improve patients’ recovery."

Denise Cuer Sports and Exercise Science student

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> "From the moment I joined USW, I felt supported and inspired to make the most of every opportunity. I immediately noticed how approachable and committed the lecturers were. Staff made me feel valued from day one, ensuring I had every opportunity to learn and apply my knowledge."

Gregorio Estevez Marchesini Sports and Exercise Science student

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