Sport and Exercise Psychology MSc

Brunel University London

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Qualification

1 year

Course duration

8/31/2025

Start Date

US$30497

Fee

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Scholarships

The Brunel Sport and Exercise Psychology MSc provides graduates the first stage of training towards becoming a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited sport and exercise psychologist. You’ll examine the key psychological factors that affect both sports performance and exercise participation and learn how to assess client needs and formulate tailored programmes for them. In your sport specialisation, you’ll learn techniques and strategies to help athletes of all levels, ages and genders develop the mental skills needed to tackle inhibitions and achieve peak performance, as well as to overcome the emotional consequences of serious injury or prolonged loss of form. These mental skills are equally applicable to coaches wanting to build positive team dynamics and referees dealing with the stresses of the job. In your exercise specialisation, you’ll focus on applying psychology to increase exercise participation and motivational levels among the public and to encourage people to adopt more active lifestyles. On completion of the course, you can progress to Stage 2 training, which leads to chartered psychologist status with the BPS and registered practitioner status with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Throughout your studies you’ll be able to take advantage of our modern physiology and biomechanics laboratories and some of the best sports facilities in the UK. With sport and exercise participation growing at a healthy pace, employment opportunities in the field of sport and exercise psychology are on the rise too. The expert knowledge and skills you’ll gain from your Brunel Master's, including those highly transferable skills related to implementing goal-setting strategies, will stand you in good stead for a range of rewarding jobs. As the course is BPS accredited this could be your next step on the way to becoming a psychologist, be it in sport and exercise or otherwise. You’ll also have the skills and expertise for a wide range of other careers. For example you may wish to become a university lecturer, a consultant in elite sport or maybe lead a national sport psychology service for an organisation such as the English Institute of Sport.

For international students

A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree in Psychology or Sport Science. Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society (BPS) is no longer required before taking this course; however, students wishing to enrol on Stage 2 practitioner training must have GBC either by virtue of their undergraduate degree, or successfully completing a BPS accredited conversion course. Students who hold a good Honours degree in an unrelated subject, who have successfully completed a BPS accredited conversion course (e.g. Graduate Diploma in Psychology) are also eligible to apply. In the UK, GBC is attained either by completing a BPS accredited undergraduate degree in Psychology (minimum lower 2nd class Honours) or by completing a BPS accredited conversion course. IELTS: 7 (min 6 in all areas). TOEFL: 98 overall (min 20).

1 year - Full time

Fee

£23,615.00 (US$ 30,497) per yearThis is a fixed fee Please check with institution

Start Date

8/31/2025

Address

Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Hillingdon, UB8 3PH, SOUTHERN ENGLAND, England

Sports Scholarships Programme 2020/21

Value of scholarship

£3,000.00 (US$ 3,885)

How to applay

The first deadline for applications is the 31 July to ensure accommodation places are met if you have opted for athlete friendly accommodation. The second deadline will be 31 August , but will not guarantee athlete friendly accommodation.

Requierments

Anyone can apply for an award as long as they have met the academic requirements for a course and subsequently been given a conditional or unconditional place at Brunel University London. As main criteria, all applicants must be able to demonstrate sporting achievement at junior international level or equivalent in one of the priority sports listed below and/or evidence a top 10 age ranking within their choosen sport. Our Sport Scholarship Programme award will contain exclusive benefits that focus on access to great training facilities as well as support facilities all available on campus. We have a wide range of talented students at Brunel University London, therefore the programme is designed to benefit those students from a world-class performance level competing at an international level through to English Schools Champions. We offer the following Sport Scholarships tiers for team sports: Gold Sport Scholarship Award - participating at major international competitions at a Senior level; Silver Sport Scholarship Award - participating at junior international competitions or equivalent; Bronze Bursary Award - participating at a national level/national ranking competition. What we include within the scholarship award 2020/21; Cash award up to £3000 per academic year; Support Package benefits/products worth over £500; Athlete-friendly accommodation on campus next to sports facilities; Sport Psychology support; Free use of world-class sports facilities including Indoor Athletics; Centre and Strength & Conditioning area; Free weekly physio sessions; Free spa access; Sport scholarship kit

About

Brunel University London, founded in 1966, is an internationally-recognised university located in Uxbridge, London. Named in honour of the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Brunel is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The university is organised into three colleges – Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences; Business, Arts and Social Sciences; and Health and Life Sciences – as well as three major research institutes – Energy Futures and Environment; Health and Societies; and Materials and Manufacturing.
Due to its campus-based nature, students of Brunel are never more than a ten-minute walk away from facilities such as halls of residence, social and sports facilities, lecture theatres, or the library. In addition, its close proximity to London makes it an ideal place for students who wish to experience the capital's many social and cultural attractions.
Furthermore, Brunel is a proud member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, and Universities UK. In addition, the university offers access to specialist laboratories such as those for electronic imaging, bioprocessing and experimental techniques, flight, driving and train simulators, and a 3D body scanner.
Many undergraduate students also have the option to take a practical placement or project as part of their courses in the form of a sandwich year. On top of that, Brunel's Department of Design hold an annual design exhibition known as 'Made In Brunel', which is designed to showcase the work of final year students to the wider design industry.

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