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Sport and Exercise Science at Kingston University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Kingston University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Kingston University’s Sport Science programme offers a multidisciplinary approach enhancing knowledge and understanding of key scientific strands within sport and exercise science. This course is endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) and CIMSPA and you will gain a coaching assistant qualification alongside your studies in the first year. Across all years of study, a key focus of the programme is to develop lab skills in our bespoke sport and exercise science laboratories. You will have access to cutting edge technology and equipment to develop your understanding of physiological, biomechanical, psychological, and analytical approaches to Sport Science. We have designed “real-world” assessments to develop your key skills needed to succeed in applied sport and exercise environments in your future career. Our teaching is research-informed, ensuring topics and content are up-to-date and offers a contemporary understanding of Sport Science. Reasons to choose Kingston

  • This course is endorsed by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).
  • You’ll gain the CIMSPA Coaching Assistant qualification after successfully completing your first year.
  • You’ll have access to sophisticated equipment to measure athlete responses to exercise and analyse sports movements and skills.
  • Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.
About this course Are you passionate about sport and exercise? Would you enjoy a career where you worked to improve people’s sporting performance, fitness and health? There are increasing opportunities for sports scientists to work with athletes or conduct research. This hands-on course studies the science that underpins sports participation and how the body’s performance can be improved. Topics include anatomy, biomechanics, nutrition, physiology and psychology, with research-informed teaching linking current knowledge with industry practice. You’ll learn to monitor and assess health, fitness and performance. You’ll be able to tailor your studies to your own interests and career goals. There’s an option to study sports injuries and a project/dissertation on a selected topic. Future Skills Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it. Career opportunities There are opportunities in sports management, recreation and health and fitness in the private and public sectors.

Modules

Example modules

  • Applied Sport Psychology
  • Biomechanics of Sport Performance and Injury
  • Performance Analysis in Sport.
For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston university course webpage.

Assessment method

The course utilises a wide range of teaching and learning methods that will enable you to be actively engaged throughout the course. Teaching and learning will focus on developing academic skills and utilising research informed teaching strategies. Teaching and learning methods are carefully crafted to suit the content and the learning outcomes of the module - typically using lectures in the early parts of modules to ensure that you have the key knowledge relating to the module. Through a variety of group- and individual-based seminars and practical laboratory sessions, you are then given the opportunity to develop more individual interests to develop personal and key skills. A range of assessment methods will be used to enable you to demonstrate the acquisition of your knowledge and skills. These include (but are not limited to): practical competency, written coursework, oral presentations, in-class tests, MCQs, examinations, laboratory reports and poster presentations. The assessment regime for each module has been designed to provide formative opportunities that allow you to practise and to receive 'feed forward' appraisals of your performance in preparation for the summative assessment.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • BASES, British Association of Sports and Exercise Sciences

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
C600
Institution code:
K84
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate-course/sport-science/

Student Outcomes

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Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
85%
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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

International/EU fees: For international fees, please visit: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding/fees/ Please visit the provider course webpage for further information regarding additional course costs.
Sport and Exercise Science at Kingston University - UCAS