Sport and Exercise Science (Hons) Anglia Ruskin University

Overview

Want to turn your love of sport and fitness into a lifelong career? 

Sport and Exercise Science graduates are in demand, whether you want to encourage and support people to take up sports and exercise, work in a clinical environment – or help propel them to the top of their game. You’ll learn to apply the four key disciplines of sport and exercise science: physiology, psychology, biomechanics and nutrition.

Study the Sport and Exercise Science (Hons) degree at Anglia Ruskin University with world-leading experts in the specialist labs in Cambridge, on a degree course endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA), so you'll graduate ready to work in the UK’s burgeoning sport and fitness industry or to continue your learning journey to postgraduate study.

Careers

There are wide-ranging employment opportunities for sport scientists, from introducing people to sport and exercise, to helping take them to the top. Among other roles in the applied health and physical activity and the health and fitness industry, you could work as:

• an athlete-support scientist
• an exercise consultant
• a performance analyst
• a clinical psychologist.

The university will encourage you to improve your employment prospects by making connections with industry. We have links with a range of sporting organisations, including:

• Living Sport (Cambridge and Peterborough Sports Development)
• British Paralympic Association
• British Cycling
• British Judo Association
• Cambridge United FC
• European Space Agency
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences
• Physiological Society
• European College of Sports Medicine
• American College of Sports Medicine
• England and Wales Cricket Board