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Calling all students interested in a sports related degree

Hey everyone!
I'm thinking of doing a sports related degree but I don't know which :s-smilie:

Here are a couple of options:
Sport Science
Physioherapy
Sport therapy
Sport management
Medicine + 8 years of specialising to sports medicine
Joint sport science degree

1. Sport science:
I think this sounds very interesting but the career prospects sound a bit worrying

2. Physiotherapy:
Doesn't seem as interesting as sport science because I get the impression that it is more to do with helping people to move such as the elderly or disabled people or perhaps people coming back after injury.
Although I get the feeling that going for physio would be a safer bet than sport science because of the greater career prospects.

3 & 4: Sport therapy & Sport management:
To be honest I haven't researched to much into this side so enlighten me please.
I get the impression that sport therapy is a more sport specialised version of physiotherapy, this right?

5. Sport medicine:
Now this does sound like the 'top dogs' of a sport related career but like all good things they don't come easy.
I do think once you have become a sport medicine doctor that it would be very good but it's just the road to becoming one which puts me off a bit. The reason I want to do a sport related career is because I am very interested in sports but going down this road will mean that I will spend a lot of time studying what I don't actually enjoy because it isn't sport related until you eventually become a sports medicine doctor right? and then how hard is it to specialise?
I'm also thinking is there another route to becoming a sports medicine doctor?

6. Joint sport science:
This sounds good because you get to do sports science with the addition of another subject and i suppose this would be better than just a sports science degree because it gives you a bit of backup and more career prospects but i'm not sure how this works is it like half and half or two full degrees.
I'm not too sure on this though.
One you're not specializing in your area of interest so in both sides of your degree so maybe not as highly valued as if you were to do a full sport science degree but idk maybe this depend whether its two full degrees?

what do you think guys?
(edited 11 years ago)

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