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BSc (Hons)

Sports Therapy

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

CB63

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

For any athlete, injuries happen. Be the one they turn to, with the specialist knowledge and skills to manage their rehabilitation and drive their recovery to peak performance.

Get the opportunity to learn critical sports therapy theory and the matching hands-on skills that make it happen. It’s your chance to get to grips with the expertise that’s vital for caring, managing and rehabilitating sports people.

You’ll learn how to assist athletes with wide-ranging injury assessments and sport-specific rehabilitation programmes. We’ve crafted our modules to give the underpinning principles of sports science and strength and conditioning, so you’ll cover the areas of physiology, psychology, pathology and manual therapy. Moreover, we’ve focused on actual industry skillset demands, so our course also explores functional rehabilitation and contemporary approaches in sports injury management.

We recognise that specific skills can’t always be developed in the classroom. So, you’ll work practically in our industry-standard sports facilities and build up clinical practice experience on our paid placements. Our students are supported to gain experience in real-world environments using our strong industry links of over 120 placement providers across the Northwest - ranging from professional to amateur-level sports clubs.

Why study with us

Hone your skills on placement with premier league or championship football clubs, National Rugby or Super League Rugby Clubs, or in a range of other sports and clinical environments.
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

You’ll study a range of modules designed with the support of the Society of Sports Therapists (SST) so that, when you graduate, you can become a full member.
Throughout your studies, you’ll work with state-of-the-art facilities, giving you the chance to put the theory into practice, helping injured athletes in their return to competitive sport.
As part of your studies, you’ll gain an external qualification for FA Pitch side First Aid Qualification, together with a VTCT Level 4 Sports Massage Therapy qualification.

Module overview

Course delivery

Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.

90%Face-to-face

10%Online

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 & chat to students.

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Accreditations

This course has been designed with the support of its accrediting body, the SST, the lead organisation for Sports Therapists in the UK. On graduation you will be eligible for full membership of the organisation.

Future careers

Our Sport Therapy BSc (Hons) degree programme is shaped around your future, offering the specialist knowledge, practical skills and vital experience to get you ready for professional practice.

This is a degree with a professional focus. We know the value of real-world experience, so you’ll have a range of opportunities to put what you’ve learned into action with real athletes and sportspeople. On one hand, you’ll have placements throughout your studies, helping you gain both skills and contacts of your own. On the other, you can also work in our student-led Sports Therapy and Sports Massage Clinic at the Preston Campus – a fully-functional injury clinic with the availability of the movement analysis lab.

That’s why it’s no surprise that so many of our graduates have developed very successful private injury clinics, while others have jobs in professional and semi-professional sports clubs and organisations. And, now that Sports Therapists often work alongside other health professionals, there are also opportunities to work within the NHS.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Sandwich year£1000 for the sandwich year

International

Full-time£14250 per year

Sandwich year£2000 for the sandwich year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Scholarships and bursaries

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

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This is a practical course with lots of hand-on learning. That means you’ll spend just as much time using the facilities at our sports arena, Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre, Movement Analysis Lab as our on-site student-led clinics, as you will in the classroom. So, while you’ll learn the theory in lectures, tutorials and seminars, you’ll have ample opportunity to put it into practice – helping injured athletes in their return to competitive sport.

You’ll learn from a team that includes professional therapists and academics from a range of backgrounds with experience – from grassroot sport to the Olympic stage – teaching modules underpinned by high-quality research.

We are passionate about our research informed teaching with staff regularly involved in research projects, conference presentations and publications.