Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science

The Bachelor of Sport and Exercise Science at UniSC is accredited at Exercise Science level with Exercise and Sports Science Australia, meaning graduates can call themselves accredited exercise scientists on completion rather than needing further study to use that title. It sits on the Sunshine Coast campus, which gives the program unusually direct access to elite outdoor training environments. The region's surf, running and triathlon culture feeds into applied placements that a landlocked campus couldn't replicate as easily.

The degree requires a minimum of 270 supervised professional practice hours, with 140 of those specifically counting toward ESSA membership requirements, so the practical component isn't an afterthought tacked onto lecture-heavy science subjects. Students are out doing supervised assessment and program design work well before final year.

Course subjects like Exercise Prescription and Programming and Introduction to Coaching Science sit alongside the expected anatomy and physiology base, and UniSC also offers pathway degrees (Clinical Exercise Physiology, Clinical Exercise Science) for students who decide partway through that they want the higher clinical accreditation rather than stopping at exercise science.