King's College London

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.

Medical expertise meets your traditional sport science programme. We’ve created a course that combines the science of human performance and physical activity with an understanding of disease. You’ll explore a diverse range of areas connected to the world of exercise and sport including physiology, psychology and biomechanics.

You’ll be able to use the very latest equipment at King’s. Every module includes work in our labs – you might be testing how the body responds to extreme conditions in our environmental chamber or analysing movement in our biomechanics and motor control laboratory.

In your first year, you’ll explore the principles of human biology, psychology and research. In our dissecting room, our experts will teach you about anatomy with real human specimens. At other universities, this is a practice reserved for medical students. At King’s, we know it’s critical to see how the body functions with your own eyes.

Moving into your second year, you’ll complete a module taught by two leading consultant cardiologists. You’ll also watch demonstrations of clinical techniques, including echocardiography, cardio-pulmonary exercise testing, and pulmonary function testing. You’ll also be able to pick from a range of optional modules, from applied sport science to pure cell biology.

The highlight of any BSc programme is the final year project – it gives you the chance to make an impact in an area that interests you. You might decide to carry out a lab-based project at King’s or with one of our partner Trusts. At this point, some students have the opportunity to work with an elite organisation such as English National Ballet or Tottenham Hotspur FC.