Sport and Exercise Nutrition (Hons) Ulster University

Overview

The Sport and Exercise Nutrition (Hons) degree offered at Ulster University will be work-based learning, which will showcase the wide range of professional roles available in the field of sport and exercise nutrition. 

Diet and nutrition significantly affect sport performance. The food and fluid which an athlete consumes before, during, and after training and competition affects health, body mass and body composition, as well as performance in, and, recovery from, the effects of exercise. As such, an optimum diet can help to maximise sport performance.

Career opportunities:

Increasingly recognised as a vital part of public and individual health, sports nutrition graduates use their skills to help people and communities make the right dietary choices. Whilst this programme is not envisaged as a vocational course, the specialist knowledge and graduate level skills that it provides will enhance opportunities for attaining employment in a variety of areas. 

Graduates can pursue careers in the following contexts: educational welfare, local government, educational and community development, social/educational research, medical sales; further and higher education, nutrition, as well as training roles in business-contexts, in health services and in physical activity and health.

With this degree you could become:

• International Aid Worker

• Food Technologist

• Community Nutrition Education Officer

• Nutritionist

• Personal Trainer

• Health Promotion Officer