Sport and Exercise Science

Sport and exercise science applies the methods of physiology, biomechanics, and psychology to understanding how the human body performs under exercise and how physical activity relates to health and wellbeing. It is a discipline with direct relevance both to elite sporting performance and to the wider public health challenge of encouraging physical activity across the population.

At Teesside University, this three-year full-time programme introduces you to human anatomy and physiology with a focus on the body systems most relevant to sport, exercise, and health-related performance. You will explore the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, neuromuscular, and endocrine systems, examining how they contribute to movement, energy production, and human health and performance. The programme develops both theoretical understanding and practical laboratory and field skills, training you to measure, analyse, and interpret human physiological responses to exercise.

Sports psychology, nutrition, and biomechanics are integrated alongside the physiological content, giving you a genuinely multi-disciplinary understanding of what makes sport and exercise science distinctive and useful.

The typical entry tariff is 104 UCAS points, and the degree is studied full time over three years.

Graduates from sport and exercise science programmes go on to careers as sport scientists, strength and conditioning coaches, performance analysts, exercise physiologists, sport development officers, personal trainers, and health and exercise practitioners. Many progress to postgraduate study in sport science, physiotherapy, or physical education, and the degree provides a strong foundation for those interested in coaching, sports medicine, or academic research in the sport and exercise sciences.