MSc Sports Technology

The master's programme in Sports Technology is an interdisciplinary collaboration between KTH and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH), Sweden's two leading actors in their respective fields of science. The programme provides a unique understanding of the areas of sports science and engineering. Graduates gain the skills to develop new technologies for measuring sports performance and advanced healthcare.

Sports Technology at KTH

The two-year master's programme in Sports Technology provides interdisciplinary expertise in sports science and engineering. Throughout your studies, you will acquire the knowledge to ask the right questions and tools to finding the most exciting answers regarding measurement, simulation, and analysis of sports performance, health and medical care.

Technically, Sports Technology focuses on measurement, simulation, and analysis of motion and performance. The programme consists of traditional engineering courses in electrical engineering, computer science and biomechanics to deliver technical skills. The programme also includes courses focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation, and design. This skillset is then complemented by a course in sport and exercise physiology at GIH (The Swedish School of Sport and Health Science). The programme's interdisciplinary nature will give you the skills to understand and cooperate with people of different backgrounds and readily handle social, economic and environmental challenges.

Sports Technology involves choosing from an extensive selection of available courses followed by a degree project. Through project work, you will develop the ability to formulate objectives and questions, seek scientific literature and present your work verbally and in writing. The projects are often done in close collaboration with research and companies within the field.

Upon completion of the programme, the student can influence and conduct improvement and development work in sports technology. The labour market primarily consists of small enterprises, specialised in specific products, and the expanding field also offers good possibilities to start one's own business. The education also provides a good foundation for research studies in the field of technology and health.

This is a two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) given in English. Graduates are awarded the degree of Master of Science. The programme is given at KTH Campus and KTH Flemingsberg in Stockholm by the School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (at KTH).

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is one of Europe’s leading technical universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers, and faculty from around the world dedicated to advancing knowledge.

History

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Research

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Basic and applied research is performed side-by-side at KTH and interdisciplinary research is conducted in parallel with work in specific fields.

Career

KTH maintains close relationships with an expanding network of international companies and the industrial community in a number of fields, and working and studying here provides access to this network.

The latest career report shows that 94 percent of those who graduated from KTH 2010-2012 have been employed since they finished their degree and a remaining 6 percent have gone on to Ph.D. studies. Of the international student population, 30 percent go on to Ph.D. studies at KTH or other renowned universities. 32 percent of KTH Alumni leave Sweden for work or studies abroad. 13 percent lead others in their work, and 13 percent have already received their first managerial position.