Why Brighton for sport and exercise degrees

Invest in your career

Our sport courses are endorsed by the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA), so you can be confident you are learning the skills employers have identified as most valuable.

A Sport and Exercise degree at Brighton will enable you to:

• Build professional confidence and contacts through placement and volunteering opportunities, and community projects.
• Gain industry insight through live client projects, guest speakers, and field trips that let you get a feel for what the working world is like.
• Develop practical skills and expertise through extensive hands-on learning with specialist equipment and facilities.

Brighton’s graduates go on to work as sport physiologists, strength and conditioning coaches, community coaches, performance analysts, exercise referral specialists, sport psychologists and more.

Facilities on your course

We have extensive specialists labs and equipment including:

• biochemistry lab with running track and 3D motion analysis
• blood analysis, kinanthropometry, psychology, physiology, and neuromusculuar labs
• environmental physiology lab housing dual temperature and hypoxi environmental chamber
• strength and conditioning suite
• exercise rehabilitation gym

You’ll also have access to our sports facilities that include outdoor grass football pitches, floodlit synthetic pitches and courts, indoor swimming pool, large fitness suite and sports hall with netball, volleyball, basketball and badminton course and cricket nets.

Take a tour of our sport science labs and strength and conditioning suite

Student life in Brighton

You’ll have fun, with the best nightlife in the UK (Time Out) and you’ll belong. Brighton is the 3rd most diverse and inclusive city in the world (Time Out).