You can’t become a great coach without doing it for real. At NTU, we’ll give you lots of opportunities to do just that. Thanks to our fantastic links with NTU sports clubs, junior teams and local sport organisations, you’ll get to experience coaching at every level.

You’ll be exploring why coaching is as important for professional sport as it is at grassroots level; and you will develop an understanding of what makes an effective coach. This will all be backed up with developing your core knowledge of sport science.

The course provides opportunities to get involved in a research and consultancy project, all benefiting from our strong connections with a host of leading sport and leisure organisations. These include Nottingham Rugby Club, England Hockey and Nottingham Forest Football Club.

This degree combines study of the rapidly expanding field of sport and exercise science, along with the more vocational area of coaching. You will approach coaching using scientific, evidence-based techniques. This will enable you to apply scientific sports principles to improve sports performance while developing vocational expertise.

Recent graduates from our Sports Science degrees have gone onto work in the following roles:

• Fitness First – personal trainer
• Excel Sport Coaching – manager / coach
• The University Of Leicester – rugby development officer
• The University Of East Anglia – fitness adviser
• Saracens LTD Rubgy Club – strength and conditioning assistant
• GB Canoeing – athlete
• Coventry City Football Club – academy analyst.

Graduate salaries range from £10,000 – £30,000 per year.

On successful completion of the course, many graduates choose to undertake further study on one of our Masters-level courses or MPhil and PhD research degrees.