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Sport Coaching and Performance (Top Up)

  • BSc (Hons)
  • 1 Years
  • Full-time
  • 09/2026
  • Undergraduate
Birmingham Newman University
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2026-2027
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Course summary

The Sport Coaching and Performance Top Up degree at Birmingham Newman University is an opportunity for you to combine sports coaching with sport science to help you pursue a career in a performance coaching setting.

The degree will allow you to develop your coaching skills by reflecting upon your practical experiences in an academic way as well as being able to apply sport science concepts to your coaching covering disciplines such as biomechanics, physiology and psychology. You will learn to enhance, monitor and analyse performance to inform your coaching practice while having have access to excellent facilities such as the new on-campus 3G artificial grass pitch, sports hall and the Human Performance Laboratory.

The course is taught in dedicated facilities on one campus. The Human performance lab, indoor sports hall, strength & conditioning suite, aerobic conditioning suite, group exercise studio, full size outdoor 3G pitch, dedicated seminar rooms and staff offices can be found within a 100 yard radius of each other. A video tour of our facilities is available to view online.

Why study this course?
This BSc Sport Coaching and Performance is an important pathway for those students that want a combination of the coaching pedagogy and sports science content.
The course aims to enhance students’ employability, specifically within the sport coaching and performance industry and those seeking to pursue a career and/or further study in a performance coaching setting.
Facilities such as the new on-campus 3G artificial grass pitch, sports hall and the Human Performance Laboratory.
You are provided with the option to undertake a research-based dissertation or a negotiated Work-Based Research Project.
Lecturers on this course are highly qualified and experienced, and regularly present at international conferences, collaborate internationally and publish research in top academic journals.

What does the course cover?
There is a strong applied focus, and the module on Developing Young People and Athletes Through Sport alongside the coaching pedagogy and sport science modules will encourage you to bring theory, practice and reflexive practitioners’ skills together in innovative and challenging assessments

Modules

Please refer to the Birmingham Newman University website for details.

Assessment method

Please see the Birmingham Newman University website for details.

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Birmingham Newman University

Study options

  • BSc (Hons) • Full-time • 1 Years

Start dates

  • 09/2026

Apply by
14 January

This is the equal consideration deadline. You can still apply after this date, but your application may not receive guaranteed consideration.

Application codes

Course code:
C64T
Institution code:
N36
Campus name:
Birmingham Newman University
Campus Code:
N
Points of Entry:
Year 1

Birmingham Newman University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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How to apply

Apply by
14 January

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
C64T
Institution code:
N36
Campus name:
Birmingham Newman University
Campus Code:
N

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

International applicants

We are currently unable to accept applications from international learners.

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Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

All applicants will need to have 120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5 in a relevant Foundation Degree or HND. Applicants should normally achieve 80% merits (minimum) in the final year.

Applicants should also hold GCSE grade C or above in English and Maths (or equivalent awards). If your application meets our entry requirements, you may be invited to attend an interview.

All applicants intending to progress directly onto level 6 are required to attend and pass a bridging module prior to enrolment. This module focuses on research methods and academic writing. Applicants not achieving pass this module will enter the programme at level 5 (second year of the degree programme). Please refer to the Birmingham Newman University website for details.

Historical entry grades data BETA

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

LocationFeeYear
England£9535Whole course
Northern Ireland£9535Whole course
Scotland£9535Whole course
Wales£9535Whole course

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.

Additional fee information

The University will review tuition fees and increase fees in line with any inflationary uplift as determined by the UK Government, if permitted by law or government policy, on enrolment and in subsequent years of your course, where applicable. It is anticipated that such increases would be linked to RPI (the Retail Price Index excluding mortgage interest payments.

Please refer to the Birmingham Newman University website for further details.

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