UFR STAPS Montpellier
Expertise in sports, education and healthcare

Job opportunities

UFR STAPS graduates are among those with the highest rates of professional integration. Over 95% of former Master STAPS students found a job 30 months after graduation.

When it was created, the STAPS program was primarily intended for physical education teachers. In the 2000s, the number of teaching posts was cut by 70%. The STAPS UFRs then had to diversify their outlets by creating new specializations. Today, only a small minority of students enrolled in UFR STAPS take the competitive examination to become a teacher.

Graduates of the UFR STAPS are prepared for all professions related to sport, physical activity and movement.

Careers after a STAPS degree

Adapted Physical Activity-Health specialization

  • Adapted physical activity teacher in the disability, maladjustment and loss of autonomy sectors
  • Coordinator of intervention, prevention and integration programs using adapted physical activity
  • Trainer in adapted physical and sports activities

Education and Motor Skills Specialty

Access to the professions for which the "Education and Motricity" Bachelor's degree prepares is often via competitive recruitment exams.

  • Teaching staff from the French Ministry of Education: EPS professors (CAPEPS), professeur des Ecoles, Agrégation d'EPS, professeur de la Ville de Paris.
  • Ministry of Youth and Sports staff: sports teachers (for the position of sports coordinator)
  • Local civil servants: APSA advisors and instructors
  • Jobs in the National Education sector (Conseiller Principal d'Education, etc.), sports activities and the teaching of sports and physical activity for educational purposes, etc.

Sports Training Specialty

  • Club or training center coach
  • Physical trainer in a club, training center or sports service company)
  • Sports manager, sports technical manager, sports technician, etc.
  • It is also possible to take various competitive examinations in the local sports and leisure sector (Territorial Sports and Leisure Operator, Territorial Sports and Leisure Educator, Territorial Sports and Leisure Counsellor), as well as the competitive examination for Sports Professors issued by Jeunesse et Sport.

Sport Management Specialization

  • Association Development Officer
  • Project Manager
  • Development Manager
  • Department or product manager
  • Sponsoring Manager
  • Merchandising manager
  • Operations Manager
  • Area Manager
  • Communications manager, etc.

Career opportunities after a professional bachelor's degree

Licence Professionnelle Animation, Gestion et Organisation des Activités Physiques et Sportives: Aquatic Activities

  • General, technical or commercial management or assistant management of aquatic leisure, sports, health and fitness facilities
  • Territorial civil service executives (with specific preparation for competitive examinations)
  • Trainer and trainer of trainers (BEESAN - BEES Natation 2éme degré)
  • Technical sales expert for local authorities or companies selling or manufacturing aquatic equipment or facilities.

Careers after a Master's degree in STAPS

Master STAPS-APAS (Adapted Physical Activity for Health)

Adapted Physical Activity Rehabilitation (RAPA) pathway

At the end of this pathway, graduates generally occupy managerial positions in prevention, insertion, rehabilitation-education, readaptation, reintegration or audit-consulting structures.

Prevention, Health Education and Physical Activity (PESAP) course

At the end of this course, graduates generally hold managerial positions in the field of prevention and promotion of health and physical activity, in local authorities, youth or adult integration organizations, health networks, the school and extra-curricular environment, and so on.

Health Management through Physical Activity for the Elderly (GESAPPA) course

Graduates of the Master's program are destined for positions as APA executives in the gerontology and geriatrics sectors. As trained teachers, they focus on designing and coordinating intervention projects, programming and teaching physical activities, and assessing and determining the effects of motor and health education practices.

Sciences Technologies Mouvement (STM)

  • Employment in higher education, research organizations and research laboratories
  • Executives in research and development departments of private-sector companies

Master STAPS-EOPS (Training and Optimization of Sports Performance)

Science and Techniques of Physical Training (STEP) course

  • Physical trainer for professional sports clubs, fitness centers and companies
  • Physical preparation project designer and coordinator for training or re-training in the private sector
  • Technical executives of (inter)national federations
  • Head of sports departments in local and regional authorities

Science and Techniques of Psychological Preparation and Coaching course (PsyCoach)

This course trains future specialists in mental preparation and coaching for athletes, teams, coaches and sports institutions. Graduates can work in sports institutions (clubs, federations), private practice, associations, local authorities, etc.

Sciences Technologies Mouvement (STM)

  • Employment in higher education, research organizations and research laboratories
  • Executives in research and development departments of private-sector companies

Master STAPS-MS (Sport Management)

MTS course (Sports Tourism Management)

  • Project manager or development manager in territorial or para-territorial organizations (CDT, CRT, SEM, Pays d'accueil, Syndicats mixtes, "Pays"...) or private (tour operator, integrated organization...)
  • Tourism Development Officer
  • Business creator in the sports tourism sector
  • Manager or department head in tourism and sports services companies

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