Sport and Exercise Science

About this course

Sport and exercise science is a broad and applied discipline that draws on physiology, psychology, biomechanics, and nutrition to understand how the human body responds to physical activity and how performance can be optimised, health maintained, and injury prevented. It is a science of human movement and capability, asking questions that matter both to athletes seeking to compete at the highest level and to health professionals concerned with the role of exercise in managing and preventing chronic disease. As a discipline, it combines laboratory-based scientific inquiry with practical field-based application, making it inherently both theoretical and hands-on. At Heriot-Watt University, this four-year full-time programme combines theory and applied learning to create, as the current description accurately captures, an inherently interesting and broadly defined degree. You will study th

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 45% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Natural and social science professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Science, engineering and technology associate professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
• 30 / 100Managers, directors and senior officials · 5% of graduatescards →

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