Course presentations
Watch an introduction from our academics about each of the different courses on offer:
Sport, exercise and health undergraduate virtual experience
Get to know our courses, study opportunities and students without having to step foot on campus.
View courses starting in 2021
Get an introduction to our courses
Our courses cover sport, exercise and health, coaching, management, leisure and physical activity, and how the body works. You don’t need to be good at sport to take a sports degree.
Explore our placements
Some of our courses can be taken with a year spent gaining valuable experience with a placement year.
Pump up your CV
A placement year is a great way to gain some professional experience and could make your CV stand out from the crowd. Benefits include:
- finding out more about the world of work
- explore your career direction
- make professional contacts
Support at every step
You'll be supported by our Placements Team during before, during and after your placement.
Our support includes:
- Placement options brainstorming in Year 1
- CV and interview help in Year 2
- Regular contact with you on placement in Year 3
- Final year debrief
Placement destinations
Our students have taken placements across a number of sectors. Examples include:
- Cancer Research UK
- Harbour Sport
- Nike
- McLaren Human Performance
- Peak Centre for Human Performance Ottawa
- UK football and rugby union clubs
- Under Armour
- Western Australia Institute of Sport
Our graduate destinations
Find our where our graduates go.
- Work, combined and further study - 60%
- Further study only - 13%
- Other (including travelling) - 0%
- Unemployed - 7%
- Unknown - 20%
Sport and Exercise Science
Graduate destination information for Sport and Exercise Science students who graduated in the summer 2017. ^1
- Work, combined and further study - 50%
- Further study only - 21%
- Other (including travelling) - 0%
- Unemployed - 0%
- Unknown - 29%
Sport and Social Sciences
Graduate destination information for Sport and Social Sciences (now Sport Management and Coaching) students who graduated in the summer 2017. ^2
Our student bloggers
Our students share their study experience and time spent on placement and year abroad.
Our Sports Training Village
When you study at Bath, you'll have access to our recently renovated £35 million Sports Training Village.
Our wide range of facilities include and olympic-sized London 2012 Legacy Pool, high performance and general fitness gyms and an outdoor floodlit 400m athletics track.
Explore the University of Bath
Get to know more about our campus Find out more about our community, applying to Bath and the support you'll get.Contact us
If you have any questions, get in touch with our Department or Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach team.
Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach
Course enquiries
1 Graduate destinations information for the courses: BSc and MSci Sport and Exercise Science. Data only includes destinations for first degree UK and Other EU domiciled students. View data source.
2 Graduate destinations information for the courses: BA Sport and Social Sciences (now offered as BSc Sport Management and Coaching). Data only includes destinations for first degree UK and Other EU domiciled students. View data source.
3 Information correct at time of production. Views and opinions expressed by the participants in these films are their own and not necessarily those of the University of Bath.