Sport Management MSc

Loughborough University

Sport is a truly international and rapidly expanding industry that unites commercial, public and third-sector stakeholders. Our Sport Management MSc gives you the skills and knowledge to work in this exciting industry. Our MSc in Sport Management is co-taught by the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences (ranked 1st in the world for sport-related subjects, QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023) and Loughborough Business School (a triple accredited UK business school). Our MSc programme is a business and management degree, which accounts for nuances within the sport industry. Our teaching is informed by world-leading management and sport-related research, and is designed to develop your sport management knowledge, underpinned by the fundamentals of sport management, marketing, and economics. Key study themes include: global sport marketing and media, sport governance, sales, economics of innovation in the sport industry, management of human resources in the sport industry, research methods and skills for sport managers, accounting, and more. This programme has a broad appeal. It will interest students with a background in sport who want to learn about the business side of the sector, but will equally appeal to students with some business and management knowledge who want to specialise in the particularities of the sport industry.

School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences