Overview

Course Details

This Sports Management program at American Public University is designed to help you cultivate strong business skills for professional, interscholastic, and amateur sports settings.

American Public University's sports management master’s program offers topical courses that provide strong business foundations while simultaneously exploring the world of sports. Coursework includes sports law; sports finance; sports marketing, promotion, public relations; and sports event management.

Seasoned sports industry practitioners help advance your knowledge to support individual athletes, teams, or entire athletic programs. This sports management degree provides a robust business framework to help build managerial expertise, problem-solving strategies, analytical abilities, and vital communication skills. Additionally, this degree program helps prepare students to broaden critical thinking within the context of the sports industry.

Students must choose a concentration for this degree program:

Coaching Theory and Strategy
Interscholastic Athletic Administration
Sports Business Leadership

What You Will Do

Apply management theory and managerial leadership concepts to contemporary sports industry practices
Analyze and apply relevant business, legal, and ethical issues such as models of ethical analysis, codes of professional ethics, and situational analysis to the sports industry and enterprise
Integrate economic decision making and advanced finance theory and concepts to sports and sports-related enterprises as it relates to sports in contemporary society
Implement concepts and theories of marketing to sports-related enterprises to include internal and external sources of marketing information, marketing theory, industry segmentation, marketing mix, sport sponsorship, licensing, venue and event marketing, and image enhancement
Examine ethical and legal concepts in a sport context relative to governance, gender equity, and managerial leadership and decision making within an athletic department or organization

Programme Structure

Courses include:

History, Culture, and Social Contexts of Sport

Critical Thinking in the Sports and Health Industries

Sports Law

Sports Marketing, Promotion, and Public Relations

Sports Finance

Sports Event Management

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 84 months

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

More details

Courses Start Monthly

Language

English

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105

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Charles Town, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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105

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

All APU master's degree/graduate certificate programs require a bachelor’s degree (or higher) from an institution whose accreditation is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA®).
Depending on your country of citizenship, you may be required to provide documentation of English proficiency
For degree programs, if you have earned college credits at a CHEA accredited institution or from a member university of Universities Canada , you will be required to submit our transfer credit evaluation (TCE) application when you apply.
If you have non-US transcripts, and you need to submit them for admission or for transfer credit, you will need to have them evaluated for U.S. equivalency by a university-approved agency.

TOEFL iBT minimum scores required: 24 in Reading, 27 in Writing

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Applies to you

Non-residents

6825 USD / year

≈ 6825 USD / year
Out-of-State

6825 USD / year

≈ 6825 USD / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

6825 USD / year

≈ 6825 USD / year

Additional Details

$290 with Preferred Military Rate

$386.75 with Veteran Grant

$409.50 with APUS Opportunity Grant

Funding

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Academic requirements

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Tuition Fees

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Additional Details

Funding

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