Careers and connections in Sport and Exercise

Undergraduate

If you’re looking to break into a career in the sport and exercise sector, we can help you reach your goal.

Thanks to our network of partners, industry contacts and visiting fellows, you’ll have the chance to network, connect, and secure work placements, no matter what you study. You’ll gain access to industry connections - including the likes of Youth Sport Trust, Together Active, Stoke City FC and Staffordshire FA - and develop the skills you need to join our successful graduates in the sports and exercise sector.

Plus, our degrees are accredited by industry bodies including The Society of Sports Therapists and The British Psychological Society and endorsed by The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, so you can trust the quality of our courses.

Explore our courses in Sport and Exercise

Your career

Our graduates have launched successful careers in job roles including:

  • Sports Therapist
  • Massage Therapist
  • Performance Analyst
  • Match Analyst
  • PE Teacher
  • Head of PE
  • Sports Coach
  • Sports Development Officer
  • Strength and Conditioning Coach
  • Sports Scientist
  • Personal Trainer
  • Cardiac Physiologist
  • Exercise Psychologist
  • Performance Consultant
  • Athlete Career and Education Advisor
  • Wellness Coach

Work experience

In all our sporting degrees, we want to give you the chance to test your skills and boost your knowledge in real working environments through a work experience placement, internship or volunteering opportunity. These opportunities are embedded into our curriculum and could be at locations including sports clubs, national governing bodies, schools and our on-campus clinics.

Previous placements have included:

  • Stoke City FC
  • Port Vale FC
  • Bee Active
  • Local schools
  • Staffordshire FA
  • Sir Stanley Matthews Sports Centre
  • Staffordshire University Students’ Union BUCS teams
  • St George's Park
  • Widnes Vikings
  • Local sports injury clinics
  • Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
  • Shrewsbury Town FC

You can also join our Sports Academy as a volunteer, helping to deliver workshops to young people in schools and communities. Find out more about the Sports Academy

Explore our courses in Sport and Exercise

My main goal is to become a football coach within an academy and I feel the connections and knowledge I am gaining from this course will enable me to seriously fulfil my ambition. Working in football is a very competitive environment and I believe the recognition of completing a sport related degree from Staffs Uni and the practical experience will help to make me stand out as an applicant.

Stephen Coates

Student, BSc (Hons) Football Coaching and Performance

Our students

The best parts of studying Sport Science at Staffordshire University was gaining a hands-on experience, whether that was operating equipment in the physiology and biomechanics labs or coaching new skills to a group of students.

Megan Goodfellow

Student, BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science

I would 100% recommend this degree – it's completely tailored to being a PE teacher and if you know that’s what you want to do, I’d do it because it’ll give you all the professional development you need – all the coaching stuff you need and the teaching side of it.  

Emily James

BSc (Hons) Physical Education and Youth Sport Coaching

The Football Coaching & Performance course is an excellent choice if you’re looking to further your knowledge and mould yourself into the best coach possible. The structure of the course allows for opportunities to work with leading coaches in today’s game as well as having enough time to balance your life outside of university. 

Carson Pitts

BSc (Hons) Football Coaching and Performance

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