sports science degree

john kavanagh

can anyone recommend a good sports science degree available in dublin for someone completeing their leaving cert

thanks

jk

Dragan

Hey JK,

is there any particular field they might want to go into or just general Sports Science/PT type stuff?

Leon11

There's a course in DCU that does Sports Rehabilitation. I've a friend who's on the course and he finds it very interesting.

I may be wrong but UL in my opinion is Ireland's top uni for sports and athletics etc. I would imagine that they would have a range of courses that would be of interest to you. The National Testing Centre is there right??

hunnymonster

are you thinking of the nctc the national coaching and training centre? They're in Limerick. A nightmare to deal with but in LImerick all the same.

The UL facilities are great. More like an expensive private facility than a univeristy campus.

Leon11

Ye sorry that's the one, a lot rugby, gaa and soccer teams would use it for pre season training, fitness testing etc

Rogueish

John,

While sports science is a hugely interesting field to get into, the employment opportunities afterwards are not good. Many sports science graduates are having to got on to further education (sometimes having to return as an undergraduate) just to get work.

Make sure that you or whoever is interested in the course researches it well and has a clear idea what area they want to get into and what the employment opportunities are afterwards.

Jonnykitedude

Leon11 wrote:

I may be wrong but UL in my opinion is Ireland's top uni for sports and athletics etc. I would imagine that they would have a range of courses that would be of interest to you. The National Testing Centre is there right??

Not anymore as DCU has there new sports acadamy and new high performance gym which is the best in Ireland at the moment.
DCU has a number of sports courses,PE,SC and athletic reabilatation course.

Rogueish

The OP specified a Degree in Sports Science not PE, Athletic Training or other sports courses

Jonnykitedude

Rogueish wrote:

The OP specified a Degree in Sports Science not PE, Athletic Training or other sports courses

I was directing my comment to Leon11 so get off your high horse

dajaffa

They may be starting a Performance Science and Health degree in UCD this year, keep an eye out on the CAO website as it'll be a late entry, otherwise it won't be starting until next year.

Also, on a related note there's Physiotherapy aswell, not quite the same but the points are going to drop this year, in case you're interested.

EDIT Health & Performance Science Degree in UCD next September, http://www2.cao.ie/handbook/handbook/important_changes.pdf

Rogueish

Dajaffa, you are right that physiotherapy points should drop this year but there is a very good reason for that. Because there is a freeze on public sector appointments there are very few jobs for newly graduated physiotherapists. The current market both here and in the U.K. has reached a saturation point.

I know two girls that have returned from the U.K. with BSc in Sports Rehabilitation and Masters in Physiotherapy - excellent therapists that have been looking for work for the last 6mths and still haven't found full-time jobs yet.

I know that this seems ridiculous especially when there are waiting lists of weeks for outpatients appointments for physiotherapy but thats the position our government has left us in.

Transform

why do you want to do sports science degree?

What do you want to do with it?

JayRoc

Transform wrote:

why do you want to do sports science degree?

He doesn't.
It's not for him.

Sorry, John, the only place that I know of that currently does a sports science degree course is UL.