Course summary
Learn how to help athletes recover from injury and design injury prevention programmes for sports teams with our sports therapy degree. Are you interested in helping athletes recover from injury? Or maybe you want to design injury prevention programmes for sports teams? Whether you have ambitions of working within the professional sports environment or running your own clinic, our accredited Sports Therapy degree gives you the skills, knowledge and experience needed to treat and rehabilitate professional and amateur athletes. With sports therapy backgrounds in private practice, professional and semi-professional sport, our lecturers bring practical experience to their academic knowledge. Teaching combines formal lectures with practical laboratory and clinical workshops. As a Sports Therapy student, you’ll be guaranteed a placement, internship or volunteering opportunity to develop real-world skills. We also provide the experience of work under the supervision of The Society of Sports Therapists accredited staff, to deliver treatments in our sports therapy laboratory. On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BSc (Hons) Sports Therapy Students on our Sports Therapy degrees have worked with: Stoke City FC Port Vale FC Notts County FC Wolverhampton Wanderers FC St George's Park Widnes Vikings
Modules
Year 1 compulsory modules: Developing Research Skills in Sport and Exercise Academic and Employability Skills in Sport and Exercise Fundamentals of Physiology & Biomechanics Rehabilitation Techniques and Sports Massage Clinical Anatomy Foundations in Sports Therapy Year 2 compulsory modules: Research & Career Development in Sport & Exercise (Enterprise, Entrepreneurialism & Citizenship) Biomechanics & Kinesiology Sports Injury Assessment Sports Rehabilitation & Treatment Year 3 compulsory modules: Personal & Professional Development in Sport & Exercise Professional Placement in Sports Therapy Sports Therapy Practice Vertebral Assessment & Interventions Business and Entrepreneurialism for the Sports Therapists
How to apply
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:
- BC96
- Institution code:
- S72
- Campus name:
- University of Staffordshire (Stoke Campus)
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - DMM
T Level - Pass (C and above)
Additional entry requirements
Criminal records declaration (DBS/Disclosure Scotland)
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
EU | £16750 | Year 1 |
International | £16750 | 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
Provider information
University of Staffordshire
College Road
Stoke on Trent
ST4 2DE