BSc (Hons) Sport (Top-up) at Cardiff Metropolitan University

Programme overview

A one-level (year three equivalent) honours degree for students who have completed an HND or foundation degree, with flexible module choices allowing a sport science, sport coaching or sport management/development focus. Work-based learning is core, through a final project and industry placement. Taught at Cyncoed Campus.

Faculty: Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences | Duration: 1 year full time; 2 years part time | Intake: 2027 entry | Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

What you will study

Compulsory: Final Project and Industry Placement. Choose one of Sociology of Sports and Physical Cultures, Coaching the Coach, Physiology of Sport Performance, Sport Psychology or Strength & Conditioning for SES; and two of Digital Sports Marketing, Managing High Performance Sport, Applied Sport Coaching and Performance Analysis Problems, Ethical Issues in Sport or Interdisciplinary Sport and Exercise Science.

Career pathways

Professional and semi-professional sport, national agencies and governing bodies, local authority and social enterprise organisations, community organisations, commercial sport and fitness; progression to master's study.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Applicants should normally be currently undertaking or have completed an HND or Foundation Degree equivalent to levels 4 and 5 in a sport related subject; non-sport HND or Foundation qualifications are considered case by case by the Programme Director. Apply through UCAS (part-time applications direct to the university).

Domestic applicants: GBP 9,790 a year (2026/27). Full-time home undergraduate tuition fee; may increase by any level permitted by the Welsh Government. Source

International applicants: GBP 16,000 a year (2026/27). Full-time international undergraduate tuition fee. Source

Intake: 2027 entry

Duration: 1 year full time; 2 years part time

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