Course details

Summary

Build on your undergraduate degree or equivalent industry experience by concentrating on your specific area of interest.

You can specialise in:

• Biomechanics

• Exercise Physiology

• Exercise Rehabilitation and Clinical Exercise Physiology

• Sport Nutrition

• Sport and Exercise Psychology

At Wintec you not only receive face-to-face support from industry specialists who are both highly qualified and currently working with professional and elite athletes, you also have internationally qualified sport scientists and athletes bringing a broad knowledge of theory and practice to their teaching and research. Wintec’s sports laboratories are accredited with Sport Science New Zealand and are considered to be amongst the best sport science facilities in New Zealand.

Career Opportunities

The Postgraduate Diploma in Sport and Exercise Science may lead to specialised roles in sport science research; the fitness industry; individual and team sport training and consultancy and regional and national sporting organisation positions.

Entry criteria

• an undergraduate degree in Sport and Exercise Science with a grades average of B or better in the final year of full-time study (or equivalent in part-time study), conferred by a New Zealand tertiary education institution, or
• a qualification with a grades average of B or better in the final year of full-time study (or equivalent in part-time study), industry experience and/or informal transfer of credit approved as equivalent by the Sport Science Postgraduate Programme Committee.​​​​

English language requirements:

A minimum IELTS Academic band score of 5.5, with no band score less than 5.0; or equivalent, and TOEFL IBT 46, TOEFL PBT score of 550 or Pearson score of 42.