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Getting people more active is an urgent public health priority. This vocational Physical Activity and Health degree gives you all the skills and knowledge you need to help address this complex challenge. As a physical activity specialist, you’ll learn how to make a positive impact on individual and community health.

This degree is highly practical, drawing on the core disciplines of physiology, psychology and sociology, while you learn about the effects of physical activity and inactivity on individual health. This includes exploring the needs of general and special populations (e.g. those experiencing pregnancy, obesity and type 2 diabetes) and how to incorporate and increase physical activity at the individual, community and population levels.

You’ll cover topics such as public health and health promotion as well as learning how to design, implement and assess physical activity interventions through practice-based laboratory projects and field fitness tests. You’ll also work on client consultations with general and/or special populations. Everything you learn forms a crucial part of your role in improving the health and wellbeing of the general population.

Entry Requirements

2025 entry requirements

Standard entry: 4 Highers at BBBC including 1 from Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physical Education or Physics at B plus English and Maths or Applications of Maths at National 5.

Widening access entry: 3 Highers at BBC 1 from Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physical Education or Physics plus English and Maths or Applications of Maths at National 5.

For entry to second year, you must have 3 Advanced Highers at ABB including Biology, Chemistry or Physics and Physical Education.