Ultimately, nothing is more important than our health. That why we’ll develop your nutrition and exercise science understanding and provide you with the skills to apply this in the real-world. These opportunities give you the experience employers expect to see.

You’ll be a confident graduate who is ready to become an effective health practitioner and enhance lifelong health.

Roles in physical activity and nutrition in health promotion are gaining a high profile, so choosing to specialise in the fields of exercise, nutrition and health provides you with a number of rewarding career options.

Over 25 health and related organisations support this course, all providing valuable industry experience – including the East lands Platform for Health and Wellbeing, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Slimming World, and Nottingham City Council.

Why choose this course?

• Our multidisciplinary approach enables you to work with staff from three outstanding academic teams at NTU – Sport Sciences, Biosciences and Public Health – as well as leading health practitioners.
• Our substantial network of external health practitioners will interact with you in a variety of ways such as through workshops, guest lectures, work placements, setting assessments, volunteering opportunities, and research projects.
• We recognise that behaviour change is a key part of health promotion, the inclusion of Communication Skills and Psychology adds particular value and reinforces the unique nature of the degree.
• You will become a member of the NTU Health Promotion Forum and work alongside the NTU Health Promotion Specialist on real-life briefs to improve the health of NTU students and staff.

The number of people with physical inactivity and poor nutrition is rising. This means that the roles of the following are gaining an increasingly high profile:

• exercise
• physical activity
• nutrition in health promotion.

The number of jobs in health related industries is also increasing.

Recent graduates from the BSc (Hons) Exercise, Nutrition and Health have gone on to secure the following positions:

• Nuffield Health – health adviser
• Nottingham Forest Football Club – strength and conditioning internship
• Healthy Action – online sports nutrition adviser
• Alder Hey Children's Hospital – health promotion adviser
• Derby City Council – weight-loss adviser
• DW Sports Ltd – personal trainer.

Other roles which this course could lead to include:

• health development / promotion officer
• nutrition / healthy eating adviser
• media health journalism or work within public interest organisations and charities