Sport Management with Foundation Year - BA (Hons)

University of Derby

This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.As sport becomes an ever more powerful industry in the global market place, there has never been a better time to consider a career in sport management. Choose our honours degree with a foundation year to keep ahead of the game.Realise your potential: a course with a foundation year is ideal if you are contemplating a career change or want to immerse yourself in a new subject.Take your first steps towards a dream career: you could go on to work behind-the-scenes with professional sports clubs or at major international sporting events.Distinctive and dynamic, this course will appeal to anyone with an enthusiasm for sport and a thirst for business and management knowledge. It provides a compelling mix of skills to put you at the forefront of what is one of the most lucrative and high-profile business sectors of all. Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the behind-the-scenes business operations of sport – and with it has come an urgent need for forward-thinking and capable management professionals. As a BA (Hons) Sport Management graduate, you can advance to a wide range of roles within the sector – such as marketing executive, facility manager, social media manager, commercial sponsorship manager or sport event manager. The impressive skillset you develop on this course will also prove invaluable for business management careers in broader fields, including the live events industry where the popularity of concerts and festivals continues to escalate. You could also consider progressing to postgraduate study or teacher training with a focus on sport or business.