The course has a strong vocational underpinning and is designed to ensure you have extensive opportunities to engage in work-based learning and gain real-life experience of the industry, thus developing and enhancing your employability skills.

Northumbria is rated as having the joint 4th best sports facilities in the country, according to Times Higher Education 2016. This course gives you the opportunity to develop your theoretical and practical sporting skills with state of the art equipment house in the infamous Sport Central building.

Thanks to our unique partnership with sport coaching organisation, Street Games, you can complete recognised coaching qualification in your first year, providingÊ

You will graduate from this course with the ability to critically analyse and appreciate contemporary sport issues and will be able to understand the policies, processes and practices of sport development within society. As a graduate of the Sport Development degree you will develop an understanding of a variety of vocational contexts and will be able to apply your knowledge to problem-solve real-world issues across the breadth of sport development contexts.

Graduates from this course go on to follow career paths in PE Teaching, sport development positions, local authority leisure, disability sport, National Governing bodies of sports, community fitness and coaching children.