Undergraduate Sport and Physical Activity
To turn your passion for sport into a dream job, you need skills and experience. Here at Edge Hill, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to practice for a lifelong career as a professional.
We have been voted 5th in the UK for Student Experience (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 – Sports Science). With excellent facilities, like our Sports Centre and labs, and exciting projects including research and real-life work placements, you’ll be active from day one of your course. Whatever area of sport, physical activity and health you decide to focus on, we’ll support you every step of the way.
At Edge Hill, you’ll discover everything you need to kickstart your career and become part of the next generation of sport professionals. 95.2% of our Sport & Exercise Science students are employed or in further study 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes data released 2023 from 2020/21 graduates).
Work on real life projects or go on work placements with national sports teams, local clubs, schools and community sport and health organisations.
Our open-access laboratories and state of the equipment are some of the reasons why we are 3rd in the North West for learning resources (National Student Survey 2023 – Sport and Exercise Sciences).
All our courses are accredited or endorsed by professional statutory regulatory bodies. You’ll be one step closer to professional status.
Open days are suitable whether you are looking to study an undergraduate programme or postgraduate course. Attending an open day provides an opportunity for you, and your family, to see our beautiful campus.
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Discover Sport & Physical Activity at Edge Hill University
To turn your passion for sport into a dream job, you need skills and experience. Here at Edge Hill, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to practice for a lifelong career as a professional.
Facilities
All courses in the Department of Sport and Physical Activity place a strong emphasis on practical work, underpinned by outstanding facilities including dedicated biochemistry, biomechanics, performance analysis, physiology and psychology laboratories.
There is a dedicated sports therapy clinic, providing a clinical learning environment in which to gain practical experience, as well as a functional rehabilitation centre where bespoke rehabilitation programmes for individuals or small groups can be implemented.
Cutting-edge musculoskeletal assessment tools combine with a dedicated strength and conditioning area in our MSk laboratory, while a Sleep, Exercise and Performance laboratory enables you to measure the responses of individuals to sleep, sleep deprivation and changes in the circadian rhythms of a variety of biological processes.
Additional learning resources include eye-tracking systems in a specialist vision analysis laboratory where you can measure hand-eye coordination, ocular-motor control and other mechanisms associated with visual perception.
Complementing the impressive academic facilities, there are £30 million of sport and leisure facilities across 60 acres on campus.
