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The course has been set up in response to skills shortages in the sport, health, lifestyle and fitness industries. It has been designed after lengthy talks with employers, including health organisations and gyms, about the needs of the industry and the health needs of the population. You will develop core subject specific knowledge and abilities, and a range of transferrable skills that employers look for; such as producing a range of documents, analyse and synthesise information, work effectively within a team, manage your own learning and workload, solve problems and critically reflect on your own and others work.
Graduates have gone onto work as exercise referral specialists, personal trainers, sports therapists, sports coaches and teacher training. (Some of these careers required additional study)
Whist this is a full-time course, typically this course generally only requires one-two days on campus attendance, supported by self-directed study. This means you can continue to work alongside your studies and balance other commitments. This programme is not open to students requiring a Student visa to study in the UK.
On successful completion of the Foundation Degree you can progress to the one-year BSc (Hons) Sport, Health & Exercise (Progression Route) to gain your full BA Hons degree.
Employment opportunities could include;
James Paget Hospital
Community Health Care
Fitness Entrepreneurs
Fitness Managers
Sports Therapists
Personal Trainers
Fire Fighters
Please see our website for module information.
The following entry points are available for this course:
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P (C or above on the core)
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components) where English is not the students' first language. |
At the University of Suffolk, we consider the full application as part of determining if you will succeed on our courses. We are therefore flexible where possible and might still be able to accept you if you do not meet your expected grades. As part of this, we make contextual offers, where we consider the factors that might have an impact on achievement. This means that some applicants will receive an offer of one grade below our published entry requirements. Please see our website.
This section shows the range of grades that students who received offers were previously accepted on to this course with (learn more).
It is designed to support your research but does not guarantee whether you will or won't get a place.
Admissions teams consider various factors, including interviews, subject requirements, and entrance tests. Check all course entry requirements for eligibility.
We are unable to show previous accepted grades for this course. This could be because the course is new, it's a postgraduate course, there isn't enough historical data, or the provider has opted out of sharing their entry grades data for this course - learn more.
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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
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