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Course Overview

The Highlights

  • Select our four-year course to smooth your academic progress and gain all the support and guidance you need
  • Realise your potential: a course with a foundation year is ideal if you are contemplating a career change or want to immerse yourself in a new subject
  • Take your first steps towards a dream career: you could go on to work behind the scenes with professional sports clubs or at major international sporting events
  • Build wide-ranging skills in strategy, leadership, enterprise, marketing, media, PR, finance, events and operations – all with a focus on the sports business environment
  • Apply theory to practice through placement opportunities with the likes of Derby County FC, Utoxeter Race Course, Derby Arena, Team Derby, and other sport businesses
  • Assist with the organisation of major sporting events – from football and cricket to basketball and half marathons

Distinctive and dynamic, this course will appeal to anyone with an enthusiasm for the sport and a thirst for business and management knowledge. It provides a compelling mix of skills to put you at the forefront of what is one of the most lucrative and high-profile business sectors of all.

Learning in a real-world context

You will see the business of sport up close. We take you beyond the classroom so that you can develop your management and leadership know-how in real professional scenarios.

Our BA (Hons) Sport Management broke new ground by becoming the first course of its kind in the country to guarantee every student a sports business work placement during each year of their studies. Our students have gained invaluable insights through working directly with names such as Derby County Football Club, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Derby Arena, Derby City Council, Sport-80, Team Raleigh, Team Derby and Sporting Futures. 

In just one example, our partnership with Derby County FC has seen our students attend live press conferences; get involved with commercial hospitality and retail management; take part in crowd management on match days; learn about sophisticated ticketing systems; explore legal and HR issues surrounding staff contracts; and undertake consultancy and research projects on behalf of the club.

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

Requirement What we're looking for
UCAS points 72
Specific requirements at A-level

No specific subject requirements

Specific requirements at GCSE

GCSE Maths and English are preferred, however if you don't have these qualifications you will be able to undertake Maths and English at Level 2 as part of your course of study.

IELTS 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)
Interview / Audition N/A
Portfolio N/A

Alternative entry qualifications:

  • BTEC - MPP
  • Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 and 15 at Level 2

English Language Requirements:

IELTS: 6.0 (with at least 5.5 in each skills area)

Fees

  Full-time Part-time
UK

£9250 per year

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International/EU

£14045 per year

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This information was accurate on : 21/04/2021
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