Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences

King's College London, University of London
Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Full-time 3 Years Physiotherapy, physiology, and pathology

A-Level Entry

ABB

About this course

To truly understand how sport and exercise affects the body, it’s vital to take an approach rooted in medical insight. On this ground-breaking degree, you’ll investigate how movement prevents disease, nutrition influences health and physical inactivity changes our body.

There are few places in the world better placed to develop your learning than the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s. Not only do we have connections to London’s many centres of sporting excellence, our course benefits from the research and teaching at one of the world’s great medical schools.

Key benefits

  • Explore a broad area that covers several related disciplines including nutrition, biochemistry and psychology

  • Benefit from our extensive expertise – few institutions cover such a diverse range of human physiology research areas

  • Learn from lecturers who are world leaders in areas including skeletal, cardiac and respiratory muscle physiology, ageing, tissue regeneration, and more

  • Be the first to hear drug-related breakthroughs from our world-class bio-analytical and pharmaceutical laboratories

  • Complete research projects under the supervision of leading researchers or work with an elite organisation

    Please see our online prospectus for further details on this programme: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate

  • Entry Requirements

    A-Level Grades ABB
    Scottish Higher BBB
    Scottish Advanced Higher AB

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2222 Occupational therapists
    3219 Health associate professionals
    2229 Therapy professionals
    2221 Physiotherapists
    1231 Health care practice managers
    3214 Complementary health associate professionals

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    3 Years
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Undergraduate
    Subjects
    Physiotherapy, physiology, and pathology