The Bachelor of Arts in Sport Management is a program that prepares students for a wide variety of sport industry careers that include, but are not limited to the following:
Professional sports: these careers include event management, community relations, ticket sales, social media management, gameday operations, and more.
College sports: intercollegiate athletic administration, coaching, fundraising and development, marketing, recreational sport management.
Community sport: youth sport management, YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, sport training facilities, fitness center management.
The broad-based program also prepares students for opportunities to work in other fields and offers students the flexibility to pair the Sport Management major with a minor from areas like business, psychology, sales, communications, women's and gender studies, and more. The faculty are committed to providing opportunities for real-world experience through the provision of experiential learning courses and volunteer opportunities. Recent volunteer and experiential learning sites include: Big Ten Basketball Tournament, New York City Marathon, Super Bowl LIII, Super Bowl LIV, Special Olympics of New Jersey.
The final semester is devoted to an internship experience in which students have the opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge to the real world. Internship settings include collegiate athletic departments, intramural departments, sport and leisure industry, professional sports teams, state and city sports commissions, professional major/minor leagues, NCAA offices, national sports organizations, special organizations, stadium and arenas, event management, individual sports associations (e.g. PGA Tour), motor sports, and many more.