Curriculum

To earn an MPS in Sports Inustry Management, you must successfully complete 10 courses (30 creits total), incluing:

• 2 core courses (6 creits total):
• Applie Ethics in Sports
• Capstone
• 4 founation courses (12 creits total):
• Sports Leaership an Management
• Social Responsibility an Globalization in Sports
• Sports Marketing Strategy
• Sports Business an Finance
• 4 elective courses (12 creits total):
• For a current list of electives, visit the Course Scheule page.

You’ll have the flexibility to earn your egree at a pace that suits your scheule—you can take up to 12 creits per semester an have up to five years to complete the egree.

• Full-time stuents typically take three courses uring the fall an spring semesters, an two courses uring the summer semester.
• Part-time stuents typically take one to two courses uring the fall, spring, an summer semesters.

Focus Areas

The Sports Inustry Management program offers three focus areas that enable you to tailor your stuies an sharpen your expertise in a particular area of stuy:

• Sports Communications: Unerstan how to leverage brans, atabases, the internet, market research, technology, an meia relationships to evelop marketing strategies, execute targete promotional tactics, an garner long-term consumer loyalty.
• Sports Business & Sales: Develop a founational knowlege of business management an sales while unerstaning how to employ analytical an planning tools an strategies that maximize profitability an prouctivity.
• College Sports Aministration: Explore the intricacies of collegiate athletics with hans-on experiential learning focuse on managing events, social meia, an partnership activations.

Program Formats

The Sports Inustry Management program is available in both an online format an an on-campus format. You can opt to take classes online, on campus, or through a combination of both.

• On-Campus Format: In the on-campus format, classes are hel at the same times every week at our owntown D.C. campus.
• Online Format: The online master’s has the same curriculum as the on-campus format an offers access to all of the same University resources. In this format, you’ll be able to watch lectures an complete assignments on your own scheule.

Connecting with the Inustry

Internships are an integral part of the Sports Inustry Management program an we strongly encourage our stuents to take avantage of internships an externships to buil their networks an gain real-worl experience.

As a stuent, you'll be able to evelop your skills through experiential opportunities with our program’s broa partner network, incluing:

• NFL Players Association
• Washington Nationals
• Washington Reskins
• Monumental Sports & Entertainment
• Washington Capitals
• Washington Wizars
• Washington Mystics
• DC Unite
• Georgetown Athletics
• Octagon
• Fox Sports
• Special Olympics
• U.S. Soccer Founation
• Comcast SportsNet
• PeacePlayers International
• Lagarere Unlimite
• Capital One Arena (formerly Verizon Center)

The master’s in Sport Inustry Management program is an institutional member of the Commission on Sport Management Accreitation (COSMA). The program has achieve Caniacy Status with an approve outcomes assessment plan in anticipation of seeking full COSMA accreitation.