Sports Coaching

Hartpury University
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 2 Years Sport and exercise science

About this course

**This programme will support you to take your coaching to the next level by becoming a theoretically informed and evidence-based reflexive practitioner.

You’ll benefit from a range of academically stimulating and industry-relevant modules, blending theory, practical and placement experiences to develop your coaching practice. The programme is delivered by lecturers who are also coaching practitioners in a variety of performance settings, coach educators for national governing bodies and coach within our Hartpury clubs.**

The course is ideal for recent graduates, as well as coaching practitioners in high-performance sport and those in development coaching roles, who want to develop in an academic environment, whilst applying theory to practice in real-world employment or extra-curricular settings.

As an MSc student, you’ll undertake a significant piece of research in your final year, contributing new knowledge to an area of your own work or wider coaching environment.

With both full and part-time learning options, you could study alongside existing employment or other commitments.

Study Options

This course is available in 7 study options:

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 2 Years

Qualification: MSc

Location: Gloucester

Part-time

Duration: 2 Years

Qualification: MSc

Location: Gloucester

Part-time

Duration: 3 Years

Qualification: MSc

Location: Gloucester

Full-time (intensive)

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: MSc

Location: Gloucester

Part-time

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: PgCert

Location: Gloucester

Part-time

Duration: 2 Years

Qualification: PgDip

Location: Gloucester

Full-time Shown above

Duration: 1 Year

Qualification: PgDip

Location: Gloucester

Career Prospects

Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

2317 Teachers of English as a foreign language
1224 Leisure and sports managers and proprietors
2319 Teaching professionals
3219 Health associate professionals
2311 Higher education teaching professionals
2312 Further education teaching professionals

Course Details

Qualification
MSc
Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
2 Years
Start Date
2025
Academic Year
2025
Campus / Location
Gloucester
Scheme
Postgraduate
Subjects
Sport and exercise science