Sports and Leisure

Learn how to bring your A game

If you're inspired by sport, wellness, and helping others lead healthier lives, this sports and leisure course equips you with the practical skills, academic grounding, and leadership capabilities needed to make an impact. Delivered through flexible learning, this pathway allows you to tailor your study around training, coaching, or personal commitments—making it the ideal choice for active learners.

Turn Passion Into Profession

Sport is a universal language—and the sports and leisure industry continues to expand across every continent. Whether you aspire to run wellness programmes, manage sports events, or coach athletes, this degree gives you the tools to turn your enthusiasm for sport into a lifelong career. You'll choose between two academic tracks: a Bachelor of Management in Sport and Leisure or a Bachelor of Exercise in Sport and Leisure, depending on your goals.

Leadership and Management Skills

As a practical management course, this pathway helps you develop the strategic thinking, communication, and leadership skills required to thrive in sport administration, club and facility management, and event coordination. The knowledge gained is also highly transferable—ideal for any profession that values emotional intelligence, marketing insight, and team leadership.

Inspire Healthy Communities

With growing public awareness around physical and mental wellbeing, there’s a global demand for professionals who can lead active lifestyle initiatives in schools, businesses, and communities. This course prepares you to design and implement engaging fitness and wellness programmes, ensuring you're well-positioned to meet these needs.

Gain Expertise That Matters

From movement screening and client assessments to programme design and behaviour change strategies, you’ll gain the technical expertise to make a tangible difference in others’ lives. Whether working in corporate wellness, public health, or performance coaching, you’ll be equipped to support individuals and organisations in achieving their wellbeing goals.

What does the course look like? 

Our Sports Pathway is structured into levels, offering a flexible and asynchronous learning experience. Learners who have completed Grade 10 (or equivalent) begin at Level 3, while those who have finished high school start at Level 4, where they’ll select either the Bachelor of Management in Sport and Leisure or the Bachelor of Exercise in Sport and Leisure.

 

Each level consists of diverse modules, detailed in our course booklet, and the programme is fully online, making it accessible from anywhere in the world — though we highly recommend attending our BGA Hubs for a more immersive experience in flexible schooling.

Upon completing Level 6, Learners will earn their chosen bachelor’s degree from eta College in South Africa.

How Do the Levels Work?

  1. Level 3
    Designed for Learners aged 16+ without a high school diploma. With quarterly intakes, this level has a unique structure due to a different accrediting body. Completion awards a Further Education and Training (FET) Certificate in Fitness.
  2. Level 4
    High school graduates start here, selecting one of two specialised degree paths. The programme is asynchronous, with one intake per year.
  3. Level 5
    Building on Level 4, Learners move into the second year of study with continued flexibility in learning and new modules to deepen knowledge.
  4. Level 6
    The final level continues with the learning model, awarding either a Bachelor of Management in Sport and Leisure or a Bachelor of Exercise in Sport and Leisure from eta College in South Africa upon completion.
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    Check out the course breakdown, potential careers, progression routes and more benefits of a degree in Sports and Leisure with UP.

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Sports and Leisure Degrees are recognised internationally by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) of South Africa for Levels 4-6. Level 3 is recognised by The Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA). Our official university partner for our Sports and Leisure Degree is eta College in South Africa. 

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