Our football coaching and performance degree has been designed to develop and enhance your current knowledge, reshape and update existing knowledge, and provide an in-depth exploration of sports science within the game.

If you’re an aspiring or practising leader of sport or fitness activities, this BSc (Honours) in Sport, Fitness and Coaching degree will develop your skills and understanding of sports science, training, coaching and leadership. It will enhance your awareness of your role, increase your effectiveness at work and develop your communication and analytical skills – further boosting your career prospects.

BSc (Hons) Adventure Performance and Coaching brings a unique focus on sports science to the domain of adventure coaching. You will combine the skills and knowledge of the applied sports scientist with those of a modern adventure professional in ever-changing outdoor environments, preparing you to coach and guide the next generation of adventure athletes and participants.

The UK action plan for coaching 2006-2016 provides a focus for making the UK’s coaching system the envy of the world.

BA (Hons) in Football Coaching has a rapid growth of the football sector and has created many opportunities to become a sports professional in an expanding borderless industry. This course prepares you to work as a skilled coach across a range of football-related settings. On the course, you learn a range of coaching skills enabling you to deliver and plan training sessions relevant to team/player standards.

This two-year Foundation Degree (with the option of a 3rd year top-up to BSc) provides a unique and innovative learning opportunity for you to learn and develop your coaching, football development, business and entrepreneurship skills whilst gaining in-depth knowledge and understanding of the football industry.

Study BSc (Hons) Sports Development and Coaching at Scotland’s Top Modern University for teaching and overall student satisfaction (NSS 2023). Sports development and coaching needs more well-qualified graduates who truly understand the challenges and fast-moving nature of this field.

Strength and Conditioning Science is associated with the physical preparation and coaching of sports performers. Strength and Conditioning Science at St Mary’s University was the first course of its kind in the country and has evolved into a highly successful programme with a reputation of producing outstanding Strength and Conditioning coaches, delivered by accredited and highly experienced coaches.

Designed to help entry, as well as progression, within a range of careers, it provides students with extensive skills and knowledge in key areas of sports coaching and school sport. It is ideal for those who wish to work with community sports clubs, schools, National Governing Bodies and operate sports coaching based businesses.

The coach is responsible for instructing, training and directing the athlete or the team. Their aim is to develop the players' skills or to achieve a specific goal.

Immerse yourself in an exciting and ever-expanding topic of research and practice when you choose to study Sport Psychology. We will teach you key concepts and theories specific to sport psychology and give you a comprehensive grounding in the core elements of mainstream psychology.

In a world where a smartphone is all you need to break a story, what sets the good and the great apart? How do you start? You will explore the rapidly changing practices and possibilities of journalism within the wider context of contemporary media industries and digital technologies.

Work with athletes, players, and teams; refine their performance; boost their training, enable development. On our BSc Sports Performance and Coaching, you learn how science and practice underpins performance sport. A comprehensive knowledge of scientific theory and practical application is essential for those wanting to coach from grassroots to elite level, across all sports.

The course content is designed to ensure graduates develop the pedagogical practice required to coach athletes across a range of ages and abilities, as well as the delivery of all areas of the Physical Education curriculum at both the Primary and Secondary school levels. Following graduation, you will be in a position to gain employment within a sports coaching or school sport setting or embark on postgraduate studies, such as a PGCE in Physical Education.

The course has been designed to develop suitably trained and qualified graduates to gain rewarding and exciting careers in the golf industry. It is an intellectually stimulating course, with a strong practical focus enabling students to develop their practical skills, academic knowledge, sports science support and coaching experience.