Sport Business Management

Combine your passion for sport with a wide range of business skills on our exciting industry-focused degree.

You’ll gain experience working with employers on live industry projects. It could involve helping them to improve an aspect of their business or expand into a new market.

Using our simulation facilities, you’ll also practice pitching your ideas, creating operations plans and making key strategic decisions.

The course covers marketing, operations management, HR, accounting and strategic management. You’ll apply these skills to sport business, drawing on our partnerships with professional and amateur clubs, leisure companies and charitable organisations.

It could lead to careers in lots of industries, from working as a general manager through to running your own business promoting coaching or physical activity.

The course – taught by business and sport experts – has individual modules accredited by the Chartered Management Institute. It will place you ahead of the competition in meeting professional industry standards.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management

Year One (Compulsory): Exploring Academic Skills and Industry Practice; Introduction to Management Accounting; Marketing in the Business Environment; Sport Management: Strategy and Operations
Year Two (Compulsory): Digital Marketing Strategy; Industry Project; Sport Placement
Year Two (Optional): Digital Content Creation; Management Accounting; Operations Management; Social Media Strategy
Year Three (Compulsory): Operations Management in Practice; Project Based Learning; Strategic Management in a Global Context
Year Three (Optional): Corporate Reputation and Ethics; Data and Decision Making; Enterprise in Practice; Innovative Change Management