Master's Degree
in Sport Management
Managing a team is big business. In essence, teams are very similar to organizations. They have budgets, employees, managers, and strategic objectives. Master's degree programs in sport management focus on the business of sports. Programs will train you in foundational business, such as accounting and management, but also prepare you for the unique demand of today's sports teams. For instance, many programs explore leveraging media, team branding, sports law, facilities and events management, as well as recruiting and retaining talented athletes.
Featured AACSB-Accredited
Master of Science in Sport Management
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Isenberg School of Management
Massachusetts USA
Degree Program
MBA/Master of Science, 2-Year "Dual Degree" Program
Also offered in a 1-year M.S. in sport management program track.
Program Description
The UMass Sport Management Department, created in 1971, is the second-oldest of its kind in the world with graduates going on to careers in the spectator sport industry. Widely respected for the breadth and quality of its curriculum and research, the UMass program has been hailed by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sports Business Journal, and other publications as a leader in its field.
The Sport Management program, housed in the Isenberg School of Management, offers a 2-year program in which students earn their MBA in the first year and an M.S. in Sport Management in year two. Our program utilizes a cutting-edge, experiential learning-based curriculum to best prepare our graduate students to be leaders in the spectator sport industry. The UMass program features 13 full-time faculty with over 75 combined years of industry experience as practitioners and consultants, insuring a vibrant blend of theory and practice in the classroom.
The UMass program boasts a 3,000+ alumni on-line directory freely available to our graduate students. Many alumni who are Sport Management industry professionals and highly regarded in their field return to campus as guest speakers and also mentor our graduate students about their own career paths. Each graduate student is provided a hand-picked mentor to provide personal and professional guidance and career advice throughout their UMass experience. The department also provides its graduate students with access to its extensive Internship database, coupled with a full-time Director of Internships who works directly with graduate students to help identify and secure internships
The linchpin of the UMass Sport Management curriculum is experiential learning-based courses providing graduate students the opportunity to acquire "real-world" experience in sport event management, community relations, marketing research, sport labor relations, sport management consulting and sales. Recent experiential-learning based courses have included relationships with the Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, Octagon, and MLS.
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