MSc Sport and Exercise Science

Sport and exercise is a dynamic and fast-growing sector, and our MSc Sport and Exercise Science prepares you for a career in health, exercise intervention and sport education. 

This course – designed for graduates and people currently working in sport and exercise science or a related area – offers the mix of critical thinking, expert knowledge and professional skills that employers seek. 

It’s flexible, combining classroom, lab, sport facility and industry learning with a varied programme of study across a wide range of topics.  
 
Learning takes place at two outstanding sporting facilities - the Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport and Manchester Met’s Platt Lane Sports Complex. The Institute unites expertise from across the University creating a wealth of opportunities to harness knowledge and collaborate beyond any single academic or sporting field. Our Sports Complex offers top-quality facilities including an indoor dome, outdoor football and rugby pitches, a fully equipped gym and a laboratory used by professional sportspeople and coaches.   

On this course, you’ll gain the professional skills needed to confidently advise others and the research skills to carry out ethically sound, independent scientific research. Throughout, you’ll be taught by experts in their field and have access to hi-tech laboratory and field-based equipment. You could, for example, be recording real-time movement of respiratory activity and hi-res images with access to our MRI scanner. Our climate chamber offers a chance to study the effect of different climates on blood flow, joints, posture, the mind and more, from sub-tropical heat to the top of Everest. Or maybe you’ll be trying out our virtual reality technology showing in detail how our eyes track a ball.  

You’ll also get to further specialise in the main sciences in sport and exercise. Choosing physiology, biomechanics or psychology, you’ll learn how to work in a multidisciplinary team to achieve a shared goal. Crucially, from the word go you’ll have opportunities to address and discuss real-life issues in sport and exercise including the key areas of diversity, equality and inclusion. 

Whether you’re interested in supporting people recovering from injury, becoming a senior researcher or a coach for a professional sports club, we’ll also help you to find a work placement that gives you valuable insight into your chosen career path. This is made possible thanks to our long-standing industry partnerships and is the best way to develop your skills in real world settings.

You’ll need a UK honours degree – at least a 2.2 – typically in a related area or in an area of study accompanied by professional or personal experience. Applicants with relevant extensive professional experience in this field will be considered for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and Accredited Prior Experience (APE) entrance, even if they do not have the required qualifications. 

IELTS score required for international students 6.5 with no element below 5.5.

Further information for international students is available for applicants with non-UK qualifications is available at mmu.ac.uk/international