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Sport Management

Through Drexel’s Sport Management program, students master the knowledge and skills necessary for success in the fields of Sport Management, athletics/coaching, sports psychology and other professions supporting sports and recreation.

The program focuses on the integration of applicable areas of learning including athletics management, business, business administration, communication and technology. It uses a multidisciplinary approach (athletics and human performance; sport and the psycho-socio-cultural process; sports as an industry) to understand sports and manage the sports industry. Students will also develop the important supporting skills in technology. The major emphasizes the practical application of skills to the solution of problems in the management of sports, athletics and recreation on the professional, amateur and community level.


Coursework
The B. S. in Sport Management consists of 181 credits. All students enrolled in the program are required to take 47 credits of general education courses plus 49 credits of core courses on the foundations of Sport Management. These courses are supplemented by 27 credits of free electives.The balance of the program is based on technical elective courses drawn from four major concentrations, namely Athletics, Health & Human Performance (15 credits);The
Business of Sport (15 credits); Sport & the Psycho-Socio-Cultural Process (15 credits);Technology for Sport Management (13 credits).

Degree Completion Options
The Bachelor of Science degree in sport management can be completed in either four or five years:

Five-year option, with co-op experience
This option allows for the greatest amount of employment experience, with three distinct six-month periods of employment included with studies. After the start of the sophomore year, students study or work through all terms, including summers.

Four-year option, with internship experience
This option includes just one six-month period of full-time employment. After the start of the sophomore year, students study or work through all terms, including summers.