University of Liverpool - Sports Business and Management MSc
New registration dates to be announced soon
- University of Liverpool, England
- 15300 £
- 30 Months
- Online
- 10 October 2023
Course Information
The more popular sports discipline, the more commercialized it gets. Over years sports and business were becoming tighter and tighter intertwined. Business involvement in the world of sport requires from companies to tailor their approach through commercial, corporate and retail perspectives. Sport management offers many interesting jobs and involves prestige, dynamics and opportunities to build up careers and networks.
This programme has been designed by leading academics in the University of Liverpool’s AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS accredited Management School. It will cultivate the attributes needed to progress in management career, grow your own sports business or thrive within an existing role.
It will help you to build skills enabling to critically analyse sports organisations’ policies and practices within the dynamic sports business environment and empower you to make evidence-based decisions. You will be encouraged to expand your skills as a reflective leader who can make a key contribution to enabling sustainable sports organisations.
You will gather insight from the University of Liverpool’s network of experts experienced in working with international, national and community sports organisations, including football, horse racing and rugby, to address the global issues of health and wellbeing.
The culminating part of the programme is completing a work-based project or dissertation in which you will integrate programme learnings with the real-life problematic situation within your own organisation or the sports business environment. As an alternative, you can complete a research assignment addressing an aspect of the future of the sports management industry, featuring both team-based and individual projects.
This programme offers alternative awards, meaning you may opt for either a full Masters degree, or finish up with either Post Graduate Diploma or Post Graduate Certificate.
About the University / School
One of the six original 'red brick' civic universities, the University of Liverpool is also a part of the Russell Group, the group is a collaboration of 20 leading research-intensive universities. With a worldwide ranking in the top 200 Universities, it is also known for for ten Nobel Prize winners amongst its alumni and past faculty.
University of Liverpool's Online courses are delivered by Kaplan Open Learning. Being a leading international provider of fully online postgraduate education, with more than 10,000 students from over 160 countries, the University of Liverpool has one of the most international virtual classrooms.
Learning format
This programme consists of eight modules followed by dissertation. In order to earn a full Master of Science completing 180 credits is required, 120 credits to earn the postgraduate diploma (PG Dip), and 60 to earn the postgraduate certificate (PG Cert).
- Global Context of Sports Business (15 credits)
- Sports Marketing and Sponsorship (15 credits)
- Leadership in Sport (15 credits)
- Sports Strategy and Governance (15 credits)
- Sports Business Analytics (15 credits)
- Sports Finance (15 credits)
- Sports Operations and Events (15 credits)
- Sports Business in Practice (15 credits)
- Work-Based Project / Futures Research for Sports Industries (60 credits)
Entry requirements
In order to qualify for the programme an applicant can needs to present an academic degree and relevant work experience of about 3-4 years. In case of lack of academic degree, a minimum of 6- 8 years of relevant work experience is enough to apply.
Additionally, all applicants should be proficient in English language.
All applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis, please enquire to find out more.
Apply before:
28 September 2023
New registration dates to be announced soon