Potential employers Sport and Fitness
Professionals with a degree in this subject area can find employment across the range of public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Employers and organisations to target include:
- Schools, further education and higher education institutions
- Professional and semi-professional sports clubs
- Private health and fitness clubs, spas, public sports and recreation facilities.
- National sporting associations, governing bodies and other related sporting agencies (i.e. UK Sport)
- Grass roots and community sporting bodies i.e. the home nations four Sports Councils – Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Wales and Sport NI
- Local authorities.
- The health sector, including the National Health Service (NHS) and other private healthcare providers e.g. Nuffield, BUPA.
Some roles lend themselves well to self-employment through private consultancy such as sport coaching, fitness, training, strength and conditioning, diet and nutrition and sport psychology.
