This degree is designed to develop skills related to planning, organizing, directing, controlling, budgeting, leading and evaluating an organization or department whose primary product or service is related to sport and/or recreation.
Careers possibilities related to this field include work in a variety of sport or sport-related settings such as: professional athletics/franchise management, college athletics, corporation fitness/health club management, facility operations, corporate sport marketing/public relations, event marketing and management, journalism/communications, media relations and sports equipment sales, specialized sport management and marketing firms, in high school athletic administration, in commercial sport, as well as with traditional business.
Dan Yost is the Chair of the Sport Managment Department. For more information about the Sport Managment program, contact the Division of Business at (513) 244-4918.