About
The Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management prepares graduates for leadership and management-level careers in college, amateur and professional sport organizations, teams, and events. This program is distinguished by its inclusion of topics in youth and intercollegiate athletics with specialization areas such as diversity in sport leadership, sport analytics, and governance. This program allows students to choose a sequence of courses emphasizing intercollegiate athletic or professional sport management.
Accreditation
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
- Apply critical thinking and ethical decision-making skills to contemporary leadership, management, policy, governance, and legal issues within the sport context.
- Explain and interpret historical inequities in sport and how preconceived notions of sexuality, race and ethnicity, achievement, and competition often result in overt and covert discrimination within sport organizations.
- Apply personal, interpersonal, and team-based skills required to:
- Effectively manage and lead a diverse workforce within the context of a sport organization, and
- Make a positive impact on sport organizations within regional, national, and global communities.
- Develop policies informed by data that can create a lasting organizational culture that values diversity and continues to provide opportunities to all consumers, constituents, and stakeholders.
- Apply the concepts, models, strategies, and language required to effectively manage and lead a sport organization.
- Critique, evaluate, and use scholarship to inform policy and practice.
Career Possibilities
- Sport marketing
- Sport sponsorships and partnerships
- Sport recruitment
- Team management
- Sport agency
- Sport compliance
- Player development
- Game operations
- Sport consulting
- Sport event and facility management
- Fitness and recreation
- Sport business development
- Social media and digital media management
Requirements
Documents/Downloads
Master of Education - Intercollegiate and Professional Sport Management
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Contacts
Graduate Coordinator
Minkyo Lee, Ph.D.
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