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Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy

Postgraduate | ACU-SEP-MAS | 2024

Keep athletes healthy and safe through your career in sports

Develop the skills you need to work with all athletes, from professionals to community players. Learn how to prevent and rehabilitate sports injuries. Understand sports-adjacent diseases and strategies for improving wellbeing.

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Study method
Online & on-campus
Assessments
100% online
Credit available
Yes
Duration
Approx. 1.5 years full time or part time equivalent
Total subjects
12

Price from
$34,452
Available loans
Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)

Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy

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Career opportunities

Graduates of the Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy will be able to apply theory and practice learned in a range of health provider settings including but not limited to:

  • professional and semi-professional sporting organisations
  • community sport settings
  • national and state institutes of sport
  • academies of sport
  • Emergency Departments in hospitals
  • government and non-government funded sporting programs (e.g. university, school or post-school sporting clubs)
  • government prevention and management of chronic disease through exercise programs
  • international high performance sport organisations
  • sport, health and disease-based research

Examples of potential employment roles include:

  • sports and exercise physiotherapist for a club, a team or a sports event at national or international levels for visiting or host nation programs
    • E.g. Australian Olympic Team, Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Australian University Games
  • sports medicine manager for a team, an event
  • venue medical manager for major Games
  • high performance manager
  • government advisor on exercise for health

Professional recognition

Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy Graduates who are Australian registered physiotherapists and members of the Australian Physiotherapy Association are eligible to apply for Australian Physiotherapy Association Titled membership in the relevant stream.

Career outlook

Physiotherapists (P):
$68K to $86K

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