Career opportunities

The Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy offers a wide range of outings thanks to the broad competences acquired as health professionals: the treatment of pathologies of medical and surgical specialties; disease prevention and health promotion activities; as well as research, teaching and management in the field of physiotherapy. Graduates can also work independently, in the public or the private sector.

• Mutual insurance companies
• Accident insurance companies
• General hospitals
• Specialized hospitals
• Rehabilitation centres
• Primary care
• Schools for children with special needs
• Care homes
• Primary care centres
• Medical-social facilities
• Hydrothermal facilities
• Clubs and sports centres
• Physioesthetics
• Research
• Teaching

As professionals of the activity and physical training related to health, graduates in Sports Sciences can practice in the following areas:

• Health: prevention and recovery of health through physical activity and sport, functional rehabilitation, etc.
• Teaching: in the formal field (Secondary, Vocational Training and Sports teaching), for which a Master’s Degree in Teaching in Secondary Schools and Vocational Training is required, and in the non-formal field (sports schools, extracurricular activities, etc.).
• Sports performance: physical training for both competitive sports and for the amateur athlete, the sports rehabilitation, etc.
• Management of sports services: in the public or private sector, facilities management, projects, human resources or technical management within the sports field.
• Leisure and recreation: coordination of physical activity and sport as an element of leisure and recreation in adventure sports, sports tourism, etc.
• Social intervention: in the work of physical and sports activity as a tool of social intervention for specific groups (elderly people, people with disabilities, youth at risk of social exclusion, etc.).

Graduates in this Double Degree, as sports and health professionals, have a wide range of professional fields:

• Health: in traumatology, paediatrics, neurology, urogynecology, rheumatology or ergonomics, in the prevention and recovery through physical activity and sport, the management of functional rehabilitation, etc. In this sense, the student can also work independently or in multidisciplinary teams in clinics, primary care centres or hospitals.
• Teaching: in the formal field (Secondary, Vocational Training and Sports teaching), for which a Master’s Degree in Teaching in Secondary Schools and Vocational Training is required, and in the non-formal field (sports schools, extracurricular activities, etc.).
• Sports performance: physical training for both competitive sports and for the amateur athlete, his sports rehabilitation, etc.
• Management of sports services: in the public or private sector, facilities management, projects, human resources or technical management within the sports field.
• Leisure and recreation: coordination of physical activity and sport as an element of leisure and recreation in adventure sports, sports tourism, etc.
• Social intervention: in the work of physical and sports activity as a tool for social intervention for specific groups (elderly people, people with disabilities, youth at risk of social exclusion, etc.).