BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Medical Sciences

To truly understand how sport and exercise affects the body, it's vital to take an approach rooted in medical insight. On this ground-breaking degree, youll investigate how movement prevents disease, nutrition influences health and physical inactivity changes our body.
There are few places in the world better placed to develop your learning than the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King's. Not only do we have connections to London's many centres of sporting excellence, our course benefits from the research and teaching at one of the world's great medical schools.
Key benefits
Explore a broad area that covers several related disciplines including nutrition, biochemistry and psychology - areas in which King's are internationally renowned.
Benefit from our extensive expertise few institutions cover such a diverse range of human physiology research areas.
Learn from lecturers who are world leaders in areas including skeletal, cardiac and respiratory muscle physiology, ageing, tissue regeneration, and more.
King's association with sport is long standing. Be the first to hear drug-related breakthroughs from our world-class bio-analytical and pharmaceutical laboratories.

A-Levels
Required grades:
ABB
Please note that A-level General Studies, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills and Global Perspectives are not accepted by King's as one of your A levels.

Must include grade B in two of Biology (or Human Biology), Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Physical Education or Mathematics.
International Baccalaureate
34 points including 655 at Higher Level.

Must include grade 5 at Higher Level in two of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Sports Exercise and Health Science or Mathematics.

Standard requirements
The Access to Higher Education Diploma must be 60 credits in total.

Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits overall: 30 credits must be from units awarded at Distinction, with 15 at Merit.

The Access to Higher Education Diploma must be in a relevant subject - Sport, Science or similar - and must include 15 Level 3 credits at Distinction each in two of the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Sport Exercise and Health Science, Physical Education or Mathematics.

IELTS (Academic) - 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each skill.
TOEFL iBT - 92 overall with 23 in writing and 20 in the other skills.
Pearson Test of English (Academic) - 62 overall with a minimum of 59 in each communicative skill.