School of Sport and Service Management

Modern facilities

Our innovative facilities will make your university experience interesting and relevant and help you to build real life skills. You will have access to a range of facilities which support our teaching, research and consultancy activities.

There are excellent computing and learning resource facilities at your disposal. The campus is fully networked with wireless access.

Facilities include:

• two journalism newsrooms
• extensive library
• learning and technology suite
• computer pool rooms
• lecture theatres
• free online journals  
• restaurants
• Students’ Union shop
• two dance studios
• two gymnasia and a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning suite
• a culinary arts studio
• six sport and exercise science laboratories.

Educational partners

We have built partnerships with local colleges and international institutions that attract students from around the world to the University of Brighton and give our students fantastic opportunities to study abroad.

With some universities and colleges we have exchange agreements in place, while with others we have agreements so that students who have graduated from their accredited programme can join programmes at the School of Sport and Service Management with advanced standing.

Contact us

If you have any questions please email sasmpartnerships@brighton.ac.uk.

Local partners

We work with a number of local colleges to deliver our foundation degrees. These include:

• Brighton Metropolitan College
• East Sussex College Group
• Plumpton College.

International partners

We place great value on the partnerships that have been developed with internationally based educational institutions. Students currently studying or who have just graduated from an accredited programme at the institutions listed below are able to join the School of Sport and Service Management with advanced standing.

Our present partnership and admissions agreements are with:

• Centro Superior de Hosteleria de Galicia, Spain
• Deutsche Sporthochschule, Köln, Germany
• Humboldt Universität zu, Berlin, Germany
• IUBH, Bad Honnef, Germany
• Thomas Moore, Belgium
• Universidad Politécnica di Madrid, Spain
• Université de Montpellier 1, France
• Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Poland
• Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences, Appeldoorn, Netherlands.

Awards and accreditations

Awards and accreditations

	The university has retained the highest possible rating of 'outstanding' for its primary and secondary initial teacher education provision, following inspection by Ofsted.
	We offer one of only a few BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science) endorsed programmes in the UK. Our laboratories are also accredited by BASES.
	A number of tutors on our marketing programme are Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Chartered Marketers and are regularly involved in research and consultancy activities that keep their knowledge and skills current.
	Our Journalism BA(Hons) and Sport Journalism BA(Hons) courses are accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).
	The university is a TASS Accredited Centre as part of the Sport England Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme. Our laboratories will provide sport science and sport medicine support.
	We are an affiliate member of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), which informs our teaching and students learning.
	We are one of just 10 universities chosen to be a CIMSPA Higher Education Partner. The partnership offers many benefits for our students on sport-related programmes. CIMSPA also endorse our Sport Management BSc(Hons) course.

Other industry partners

• Association of Event Management Education
• The United Nations World Tourism Organization
• World Travel & Tourism Council
• Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS)