BSc (Hons) Sports Business Management

What’s the course about?

In your first year, you’ll learn about the sports industry from both a national and international perspective, foundations of sports coaching and aspects related to physical activity and sports development.  You’ll also learn about sports within a global world and apply knowledge learnt to diverse groups. To help you settle into University life, you’ll take a module focused on developing the academic skills you need to be a successful student. Your second year, builds on what you learnt in the first year. You’ll study leadership and management of sport events, global perspectives of sports development and applied sports coaching. The module on research methods helps you to understand the principles and methods that underpin sports business management research. You’ll be able to use this to critique and understand the research done in the areas of sports business management. It will also come in handy for your final year dissertation. In addition, we also offer optional modules for you to choose from such as process and practices in high-performance sport, sports ethics or facilities and funding. Work placement/study abroad option*: Between your second and final year, you’ll have the option to study abroad or complete a work placement for up to a year. Not only will this give you an amazing experience to talk about, but it will also give your CV a boost. If you would rather go straight to your final year, that’s fine too. You can decide in your second year with us, so there is still plenty of time to think about this. In your final year, you’ll be able to develop your research skills through our research dissertation module and focus on a work experience dissertation within the field of sports business management. You’ll get a personal supervisor to support you with the research and/or work experience dissertation. Here, you’ll design and undertake your own project on a topic relevant to your area of study, and more importantly, it will be aligned to an area that interests you. You’ll also be able to study other modules in the final year, such as enterprise and entrepreneurship, behaviour change for physical activity and advanced sports coaching. Applying for this course is easy. Simply add us to your UCAS account by using the institution and course code mentioned in ‘Key information’. There is no interview for this course. We’re just interested to hear why you want to study this subject at degree level. For a full list of modules, see the section under ‘What will I study?’ *Depending on the COVID-19 guidelines and developments

One of your campuses is de Havilland

You’ll share this campus with students from business, law, sport, education, and humanities subjects. The student housing is close to our Sports Village which includes a gym, swimming pool and climbing wall. You can get breakfast, lunch, or dinner in our on-campus restaurant or bar (in the newly built Enterprise Hub) on days you don’t feel like cooking. You can also use the common room to play pool, video games or just to hang out with friends.  Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus? You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.

One of your campuses is College Lane

This is where the creative arts, science and health-related subjects are based. This means you’ll share the campus with future nurses, scientists, artists and more. You can use the common rooms to relax with friends, work out in the 24-hour gym or have a drink in our on-campus pub or cafes. We also have restaurants for you to eat in or grab something on the go. Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus? You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.