Program Opportunities
- Major in Sport Management
Overview
The business of sport is a multi-billion dollar industry, generating a need for people who can operate, manage and staff various opportunities in sports and recreation. In sport management, you’ll explore business, finance, legal issues, and event and facility management. Through academics and field experience, you’ll develop leadership skills, too.
Program Highlights
- Students complete internships in a wide variety of settings including major and minor league sports teams, Division I colleges and universities, the NCAA, sport and fitness facilities, sport sales, and sports information and media.
- Students at Manchester University get hands-on experience through projects and events in and out of the classroom, working with campus intramurals and Fort Wayne’s professional basketball team, the Mad Ants. Through numerous professional development activities, students network with industry professionals.
- Several sport management students have completed sport management experiences abroad. The program has an international course that takes students to Ireland and England and another that visits Greece and Italy.
- In the capstone course Case Studies in Business, required of all majors in the College of Business, students organize and operate a business for a semester and then donate their earnings to a nonprofit of their choosing. Manchester business students have donated more than $125,510 and over 10,306 hours of service to various nonprofit organizations.