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Sport and Health at UEA
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Find out moreMSc Professional Practice in Sport
Key details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Master of Science
- Course Length
- 1 year
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
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Course Overview
Unlock your potential with our cutting-edge programme, designed to shape the sport leaders of tomorrow.
Sport has long served as a platform for developing physical and mental wellbeing, fostering social and community growth, driving economic progress, and advocating for under-represented groups. Study with us, and you’ll explore the importance of social justice and ethical principles in contemporary professional sports practice.
Our dynamic Master’s programme in Professional Practice in Sport emphasises the value of collaboration, making it an ideal choice for current leader-educators, aspiring future leaders, and recent graduates alike. You'll cultivate essential skills for success in leadership and development roles within the sport and physical activity sector. Our programme is informed by current professional and personal practices in both the UK and global contexts. You’ll study the development and implementation of public policy, strategies of leadership and management, the role of wellbeing in supporting performance, as well as ethics, integrity, and representation in sport.
Our interdisciplinary course aims to nurture your curiosity while building your confidence, understanding, and insights around various approaches. You’ll gain a deeper awareness of your professional practices and how these are influenced by your personal connections with the populations you serve. Whether you're looking to advance your professional development, improve your work environment, or create innovative strategies for under-represented groups, you’ll have the flexibility to shape your studies to your interests through a diverse range of modules.
Our course is structured to foster your professional and personal reflective practice, embedding it within a broader academic and policy context. You’ll strengthen your skills in independent learning, enhance your critical thinking, and elevate your communication abilities to an advanced level—all essential qualities for becoming an effective leader in the sport and physical activity sector. Designed to enhance your career prospects across both public and private sectors, our course will equip you with the qualities, competencies, and skills necessary for success in this exciting and rewarding field.
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Careers
Career Pathways
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- Local government, development, advocacy roles in sport and physical activity sector
- Leadership and senior management roles in sport and physical activity sectors, including schools and colleges
- NGBs, NGOs, not-for-profit and private sport, physical activity, and educational development organisations
- Sport and physical activity policy-making in the public and private sectors, think tanks, research organisations and charities
Discover more on our Careers webpages.
After the Course
Upon successful completion of the course, you'll be able to demonstrate advanced skills essential for working in leadership and/or management roles in the sport and physical activity sector. Depending on your previous professional experience and career aspirations, you'll also gain knowledge, understanding and advanced critical reflective skills to succeed in a range of sport, physical activity or education-related roles. Our course is designed to open career paths in sport and physical activity sectors, not-for-profit organisations, as well as leadership and management research and consultancy.
Our high-quality, interdisciplinary curriculum will also offer you a solid foundation for progressing to doctoral research.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
Degree classification
Bachelors degree - 2:2
Degree Subject
No specific degree subject is required, however it is advantageous to have studied in the sports science subject area, health sciences, and broader social sciences.
- Additional Entry Requirements
- Applicants without a traditional undergraduate degree are welcome to apply as applications may be considered based on relevant professional experience, and/or voluntary work.
- Interviews
- Note that applicants who have had an extended period of time away from formal education may require an interview.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
- Typical International Entry Requirements
Degree classification
UK Bachelors degree - 2:2 or equivalent
Degree Subject
No specific degree subject is required, however it is advantageous to have studied in the sports science subject area, health sciences, and broader social sciences.
- Additional Entry Requirements
- Applicants without a traditional undergraduate degree are welcome to apply as applications may be considered based on relevant professional experience, and/or voluntary work.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies(opens in a new window) for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
If you do not meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the required English skills.
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- Interviews
- Note that applicants who have had an extended period of time away from formal education may require an interview.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all postgraduate applicants.
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Fees and Funding
Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2025/26 are:
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UK Students: £10,675
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International Students: £22,700
If you choose to study part-time, the fee per annum will be half the annual fee for that year, or a pro-rata fee for the module credit you are taking (only available for Home students).
We estimate living expenses at £1,136 per month.
Further Information on tuition fees can be found here(opens in a new window).
Scholarships and Bursaries
The University of East Anglia offers a range of Scholarships(opens in a new window); please click the link for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
Please see Additional Course Fees for details of course-related costs.
How to Apply
How to apply
Applications for Postgraduate Taught programmes at the University of East Anglia should be made directly to the University.
To apply please use our online application form(opens in a new window).
Further information
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances prior to applying, please do contact us:
Postgraduate Admissions Office
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk(opens in a new window)
International candidates are also encouraged to access the International Students(opens in a new window) section of our website.