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BA (Hons)

Sports Coaching & Development

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

CL65

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

Sport is a powerful tool. This course is your chance to harness it. With the coaching skills and knowledge of development, you’ll be in prime position to enable people to achieve their goals through sport.

Our dynamic Sports Coaching and Development programme combines the theoretical and the practical to develop the skills and capabilities that you’ll need to bring the power of sport into community, school and international environments. As such, you’ll explore a range of different coaching environments, tackle practical coaching problems and develop solutions for working in each context.

While you’ll start off with a strong core of modules, you’ll also have the chance to tailor your degree to your specific coaching interests, with optional modules which allow you to focus on specialisms such as working in schools, international development and developing community projects. Throughout it all, you’ll find an emphasis on developing your professional skills through real-world experiences vital for your career.

Not only will you have a range of opportunities for placements where you will develop your coaching skills and gain vital experience, but you can also choose to spend a sandwich year working in a sports organisation, or at a university abroad through our international partnerships, before completing your final year with an independent research study.

Why study with us

Sports Coaching & Development, BA is ranked 1st in the North West - Guardian University Guide 2021.
Ranked 2nd in the North West for Graduate Prospect Outcomes in Sport Science - Good University Guide 2023.
Ranked in the top 3 in the North West and the top 5 nationally for Student Satisfaction in Sports Science - Good University Guide 2023.

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What you'll do

Teaching by industry specialists. This course is delivered by staff with real-world experience working in sports coaching and development.
As your interests and strengths develop, you’ll have the opportunity to make in-module choices to tailor your degree to you.
The Sports Coaching and Development degree incorporates completing a range of recognised coaching qualifications as part of your degree.

Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Join us on campus

Book a place at our Undergraduate Open Day on Saturday 17 June. Here you'll be able to explore our campus and facilities, meet academic staff and chat to students.

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Accreditations

This course is aligned with the Entry and General Management professional standards outlined by CIMSPA, the professional development body for the UK's sport and physical activity sector. As a member, you will be entitled to attend seminars and meetings and learn from industry professionals. The Health and Fitness pathway on the course allows students the option to meet professional standards in Gym Instruction, Personal Training, Health Navigator and Working with People with Long Term Conditions.

Future careers

With a practical focus on professional skills, our BA (Hons) Sports Coaching and Development degree programme is designed to help you prepare for a career at the front line of sport.

This is a programme that offers both academic understanding and vocational focus – giving you all the tools you’ll need to pursue a career from the day you graduate.

You’ll not only learn about sports coaching and development in the classroom and on campus, but potentially on a range of practical placements too. Whether voluntary or paid, and whether in the UK or in Africa, the USA or China, it’s a chance for you to develop the kind of CV-boosting, once-in-a-lifetime experiences that great careers are built on.

As such, today you’ll find many of our previous graduates working in community coaching, PE teaching and sport development management, while others have gone into health and social work, fitness training and undertaking research. Previous students on this course have been at the forefront of the University’s sports for development project in Zambia, which was organised and delivered by Sports Coaching and Development students.

The course can also lead to a Sports Coaching (MSc) or PE master’s degree, teaching qualification or PhD.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Sandwich year£1000 for the sandwich year

Part-time£1540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14250 per year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

Sandwich year£1,385 for the sandwich year

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Sandwich year£2,000 for the sandwich year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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With us, you’ll learn in a range of different ways. Engaging, small group workshops, practical sessions with your peers and guest sessions delivered by experts. There are no ‘lectures’ on the Sports Coaching and Development degree. We believe you’ll be at your best when you’re active within our workshops. You’ll also be spending time working independently, at home or in our library whilst taking up opportunities to visit local and national sport development projects.

On campus, you’ll have access to some superb facilities, with our own Sports Arena and Sports Centre – home to the Sir Tom Finney Preston Soccer Centre (PSC), a fully functioning club with several age group teams from under sevens up to and including under 14s, as well as women’s, men’s and disabled men’s teams.

As you progress, we’ll monitor your performance with a range of assessments that our students tell us they love. These include presentations, practical coaching activity, professional discussions and video diaries. Our focus is on learning, not testing. As a result, you'll never do an exam. We prefer to support your development as an independent, resourceful, problem-solving coach with transferable skills that can apply across many contexts.

We have an impressive network of contacts across the sporting world, from the grassroots up to the elite, as well as local schools and charities, sport governing bodies and a wide range of employers, nationally and internationally. We have extensive links with a range overseas employers and universities, including studying abroad options and paid internships in Dubai. As such, you’ll not only learn from industry practitioners across many of your modules, but you’ll also have a wide range of placement and study opportunities as part of the course.