Sports Coaching MSc

What makes MSc Sport (Sports Coaching) at Worcester special?

Sports coaching can be an incredibly valuable and fulfilling career for those who have an interest in helping others to learn and develop in their sport. MSc Sport (Sports Coaching) will help take your coaching to the next level by developing a deeper understanding of the theories that underpin your practice and the credibility of the evidence relating to particular approaches. Our students regularly tell us that this course has revolutionised their approach to coaching.

The UK Government, UK Sport and Sport England have aligned their various strategies to place the coach as a key figure in providing support, growth and development to a wide range of people at various stages of their lifespan. Coaching is Changing’ and the “MSc Sport (Sports Coaching) enables you to develop your coaching whether you are more interested in high performance, mental wellbeing or participation.

The course features an extensive Professional Placement element which enables you to develop your practice in an applied environment – either of your own choosing or facilitated through our extensive network of providers including our own professional sport franchises (Worcester Wolves Basketball and Severn Stars netball).

Key features

• MSc Sport (Sports Coaching)
• Full and part-time study options
• Flexible modular structure allows you to study at your own pace
• Choose from multiple pathways: Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma or Master's Degree
• Choice of assessment topic, so you can tailor your assignments to your personal and professional interests
• Professional Placement to apply contemporary research and theory to sports coaching environments

What will you study?

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative.

How will you be taught?

The ‘heart’ of the MSc Sport (Coaching) concerns the coach primarily as an educator. Therefore, the course focus explores the latest research and practice concerning how to help our athletes learn and develop. On the course you will explore different perspectives on how athletes learn and critique the underpinning evidence relating to these competing perspectives. We also explore how coaches learn and analyse the ways in which National Governing Bodies, education institutions and non-governmental organisations (e.g. UK Sport and UK Coaching) currently structure learning opportunities for coaches.

Students will normally have a 2:1 classification in a sport related degree. Students who hold a sport-related degree classification of either 2:2 (or below), or, a non-sport related degree will be considered on a case by case basis and may be required to submit a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate coaching experience.