Clinical Exercise Therapy (With Foundation Year)

This course gives you the skills and evidence-based knowledge you need to progress into a career as a graduate clinical exercise therapist (GCET). Course units include physiology and anatomy; sports massage; manual therapies; sports injury management; and working with clinical populations including those living with long-term conditions. You also have the opportunity to follow a specialism in your final year.

Foundation Year In the Foundation year you will study three days per week. The focus will be on academic writing skills and numeracy, plus subject-specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree. It provides a balance between content related to your chosen subject and the range of wider skills required for undergraduate study. This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will be required to pass the foundation year in order to progress to the first year of your degree. This course is ideal for those who do not meet our standard entry requirements or those with a non-standard educational background. It will allow you to graduate with a full undergraduate degree in your chosen subject in four years.

Course Accreditation/Industry Endorsement

This course is endorsed by the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA), allowing you to gain additional fitness qualifications in gym instruction, group exercise and working with people with long-term conditions.

Facilities and Specialist Equipment

State-of-the-art sports therapy and rehabilitation centre with a sports injury clinic, open to staff, students and external athletes/clients.

On-site community exercise clinic.

Sports massage rooms.

Purpose-built strength and conditioning facility.

Free gym and Olympic weight room.

Sports arena; Alexander Sport Centre; multi-use games areas and other external sports pitches.

Partnerships and Collaborations

We are official partners of Luton Town FC and Bedford Blues RFC.

You can benefit from placement opportunities with our official partners as well as other partner organisations around the region including MK Dons; Ampthill & District RUFS; Bedfordshire County Cricket; Oaklands College Sports Academies; and Samuel Whitbread School.

Your Student Experience

You are taught by practising therapists, coaches and injury rehabilitation professionals as well as a highly experienced academic team.

Hear from visiting experts in the field of clinical exercise therapy and sport therapy.

Enhance your learning and build your experience through field trips to destinations such as Luton Town Football Club; Northampton Saints physio centre; and a ‘cadaver lab day’ at King’s College, London.

Put your skills into practice and broaden your employment opportunities via visits to local community projects; local health trusts; and venues offering exercise and rehabilitation sessions.

Benefit from the support of your own personal academic tutor who will guide and support you throughout your student journey.

Our Bedford campus is a small, thriving academic community where academic staff get to know you well.