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This programme is for students who have a desire to work in the growing and diverse range of businesses in the area of sports, exercise and well-being.

• The sports, exercise and well-being sector is one of the largest service industries in Ireland and globally. Ranging from small to large enterprises, many are run by sports-professionals. These businesses need graduates who can both understand the science and practicalities of the sports and exercise sector, and the fundamentals of how to create value and make a profit - via services and solutions that meet a variety of customers.
• MH412 provides students with the unique option of combining business (a combination of business modules including Accounting, Business Management), with sports-related content - from practical exercise skills to the science behind human performance and wellbeing.
• In your third year, you will have an opportunity to undertake a work placement (subject to availability) which will allow you to apply what you have learned. Given the diversity of businesses in this sector, many run by those without formal business training, people with both business and sports-science knowledge is highly attractive with many opportunities.

Why choose this degree

• Unique offering: Maynooth University offers the only programme that allows you to combine a full business degree with sports-science.
• Accredited work placement: The opportunity to undertake a full- year work placement (subject to availability), in Ireland or abroad, as an integral part of your degree which gives you a chance to put your learning into practice and significantly improves your employability upon graduation.

Employability:

• This is a rapidly growing sector, with a deep demand for graduates that bridge the fields of business and sports
• Employees that have both a deep insight into how to create value for businesses (through Accounting, Marketing, Management or International Business skills) and the science of sports exercise.
• Follow your passion: Many enjoy sporting activities but sports and exercise are well known to have mental and physiological benefits. In combination with the business modules, this programme will allow you to understand how sports and exercise can impact on your health, allowing you to explore how this can be translated to new services and solutions.

Career Options:

• The 2020 Graduate Market Survey 2020 (AHECS) of employers in Ireland found that more employers were seeking business skills than any other graduate knowledge set, with the exception of engineering. Graduates typically join large multinational employers in graduate programmes, public service, or in small and medium sized organisations where you are able to work on contributing to the businesses, domestically and globally.
• The addition of sports science will allow graduates to access opportunities in the sports and exercise market. That could be from small local enterprises to large companies that operate sporting enterprises or that supply services to the sports, exercise and health sectors.
• Many of our students continue to further postgraduate study in a very wide range of Business, Accounting and Finance subjects at Maynooth University.