About the course
Combining science, behaviour, and technology, it gives you a broad understanding of modern health while keeping your future options open.
From the start, you’ll explore a range of subject areas including sport and exercise, nutrition, public health, and digital health. This multidisciplinary approach helps you build a strong foundation in key concepts such as human biology, health improvement, digital health, and research, while gaining insight into how different areas of health connect in real-world settings.
What you’ll study
In the 1st year you will study the following modules:
Professional Skills
Food and Nutrition
Fundamentals of Sciences
You will also need to choose 1 of the following optional modules:
Psychology for Health
Sport and Exercise Psychology: Core Concepts
Biomechanics of Human Movement
Future opportunities
A degree in Health Science opens the door to a wide range of career opportunities across the health, sport, nutrition, and public health sectors. This programme is designed to equip you with the practical knowledge and transferable skills employers value, helping you build a meaningful and impactful career.
Graduates may pursue roles including:
Health and wellbeing practitioner roles within community and voluntary organisations
Public health support and health promotion roles within local authorities and third-sector organisations
Sport, physical activity, and exercise-related roles (non-clinical)
Nutrition and health promotion roles (non-clinical)
Digital health, health data, and health innovation support roles
Health research assistant and project officer roles
You will also be well positioned to continue your academic journey, with opportunities to progress to postgraduate study in a range of health-related disciplines.
How you’ll learn
From day one, you’ll be supported as you settle into university life and begin your studies. An induction at the start of your course introduces you to what’s expected, the resources available, and the support you can access. You’ll also be part of a wider learning community, often studying alongside students from related subjects.
As you progress, the course is carefully structured to help you grow in confidence and independence. At Level 4, you’ll receive more guidance and support, while Levels 5 and 6 encourage you to think critically, work more independently, and take ownership of your learning.
The course focuses on helping you apply your knowledge in real-life health contexts, building skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection. You’ll also explore important themes such as:
Diversity and inclusion in health and wellbeing
Sustainability and its impact on health
Global perspectives on health systems and challenges
Career-focused skills to support your future employment
Digital tools and technologies used in modern health science
Facilities
Our Biomedical Science laboratories at Whitelands College are designed to support practical learning and advanced research in health and disease. You'll have access to state-of-the-art facilities that allow students and staff to carry out cutting-edge biomedical investigations.
Our high-tech laboratories support your practical learning and research, offering high-specification liquid chromatography and a radioisotope laboratory for advanced analytical work.
For biological research, you'll use dedicated cell culture and in vitro imaging facilities to gain hands-on experience in areas like neural stem cell biology, cell biology, and immunology.
This course is available in Clearing. If you have submitted an application, you can add this course. If you haven’t sent us an application yet, you can do this until 24th September 2026.
This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.
University of Roehampton has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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The following entry points are available for this course:
Find out more about qualification requirements for this course.
| Test | Grade | Additional details |
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| IELTS (Academic) | 6 | with a minimum of 5.5 in each band |
| TOEFL (iBT) | 80 | with the following minimum scores: Reading: 18 Writing: 17 Listening: 17 Speaking: 20 |
| PTE Academic | 59 | with no less than 59 in any band |
| Cambridge English Advanced | C | grade C in tests prior to 2015 with no less than 'weak' in any band |
English Language requirementshttps://www.roehampton.ac.uk/international/entry-requirements/
When we consider applications to study with us, we form a complete view of your achievements to date, and future potential.
Our Contextual Offer scheme enables us to offer some flexibility in our entry requirements, and we hope it will encourage talented students whose personal circumstances may have impacted upon their achievements at school or college to be more confident about applying to study a degree at Roehampton.
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.
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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.
We also provide other ways to support the cost of living, including free buses and on-campus car parking, hardship support and some of the most affordable student accommodation and catering in London. Find out more about how we can support you: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/student-support/non-academic-and-academic-support/financial-support-and-guidance
If you are on a multi-year course, e.g. an undergraduate degree, then you should budget for a likely increase of between three and five percent for each year of study with us on the same degree.
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