Management: Sport Management

Study Sport Management in a City of Champions

Boston is a global business hub and a city that lives and breathes sports, making it the ideal place to launch your career in sport management. At Emmanuel, you’ll combine your passion for athletics with a well-rounded business education that prepares you to navigate the complexities of the sports industry.

With a concentration in sport management, you’ll learn to communicate effectively, analyze industry trends, and manage the needs of diverse stakeholders within athletic organizations. Boston’s vibrant landscape of professional and collegiate teams offers opportunities for internships and hands-on experiences, allowing you to apply the ethical, social, and legal concepts you learn in the classroom to real-world challenges.

Graduate with the skills and connections to pursue roles in athletic administration, marketing, operations, and event management within a field that blends competition with community impact.

The Curriculum

View the 2024-2025 Academic Catalog to find course titles, numbers and descriptions.

Requirements for B.A. in Management with Concentration in Sport Management

In addition to courses required for the management major, students take 12 credits from courses listed below. They do their Management Internship (MGMT3496) in a sport marketing or sport management related position.

  • MGMT2401 Introduction to Sport Management
  • MKTG3422 Sport Marketing
  • MGMT3423 Sport Law
  • PSYCH2405 Health Psychology

At the completion of the Management Major, students will:

  1. Be able to address issues of personal and social responsibility in their organizations and communities.
  2. Have fundamental knowledge of concepts and analytical tools within management, business, and economics and be able to apply this knowledge to the analysis and resolution of management problems and situations at work.
  3. Communicate effectively: orally and in writing, using concepts and analytical tools from management, business and economics.
  4. Better understand-their values, their strengths, their weaknesses and their interests-and be able to apply this self-knowledge to job and career path decisions

Related Programs

The School of Business & Management also offers a full major and minor in Sport Management

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