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Career Paths in Sports and Health Science

The academic study of sports and health at universities is traditionally linked to degree programs such as medicine or teaching. In recent years however, more and more programs have emerged that seek to overcome this strict link in order to develop other approaches to study and build bridges to other career goals. 

This results in the following specific fields of activity:

- Movement in Theory and Practice (Research)
- Acts and Arts (Communications)
- Movement and Education
- Consulting
- Health Management
- Organization
- Everyday Life, Leisure, Therapy (Services)

At Marburg University, it is the bachelor’s degree in Exercise and Sports Science that lays the foundation for this “bridge,” closely linked to the advanced degree programs in Motology and Psychomotricity, Adventure and Experiential Education, and then again to Sports Education. 

It’s about movement, initiating and promoting movement, body and movement awareness, controlling movement in space (voluntary and involuntary), the transition to sporting activities, training, performance, and more, but also about regaining lost flexibility and mobility. In the sports degree program, you can study elite and competitive sports, but you don’t have to!

Even with a bachelor’s degree, there are a number of jobs that graduates of this program can do well and enjoy. With a master’s, there are three career paths: applied research, management and leadership positions, or conceptual work.

This information is based on information provided by the BERUFENET of the German Federal Employment Agency and surveys conducted with graduates of Marburg University. We would like to thank Edgar Losse from the Marburg branch of the Federal Employment Agency for the suggestions and support.