Sports ManagementCertificate
Advance your career in sports
Earn your sports management certificate and get the skills necessary to advance your career. Here, you'll learn leadership and management skills and legal aspects of athletics. In this certificate program, you'll expand on the skills you learned in your undergraduate studies.
Plus, a certificate program allows you to acquire the knowledge and skills you desire without the commitment of a full MBA program.
What you'll learn in this certificate program
- Leadership and management of organizations
- Issues of collegiate and professional sports
- Management of the sports business
The College of Business and Management at Lynn University is accredited by IACBE
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We're pretty spoiled with housing!Drew Hauber '21, B.S. in sports management
Courses
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Introduces students to leading thinkers in business today and to influential theories and approaches to contemporary business issues. Organizational styles, innovation and change, globalization, and technology are among the issues analyzed to determine best practices for leaders and managers. Students will apply these ideas, theories and strategies to analyses of case studies and to examples from their own professional lives.
An overview of critical issues of national interest in both collegiate and professional sports: Title IX, Gender Equity, scholarships and payment of athletes, recruiting policies, professional agents, and other current matters of prime importance in the field.
General overview of the fundamentals of sports law. Emphasis on those areas of sports law that impinge on the daily business routines of lawyers and sports professionals. Topics include school, coach and medical liability, as well as liability, injuries, warnings, waivers, contracts, and discrimination.
Application of management theory and practice to sports administration. Emphasis on organizing, structuring and maintaining a successful department. Day-to-day operations reviewed along with facility management, fiscal and budgetary aspects, personnel selection and supervision, public relations, and office management.
Career opportunities
This sports management certificate program can help take your career to the next level. See where you can go or further your career by earning an MBA in sports management.
Career preparation services
We empower students to utilize all the career preparation resources to find the job they’ve always dreamed of.
Cost and aid
Estimated cost of attendance
Fee name | 2023-2024 |
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Tuition | $750 per credit |
Fees | $200 |
Total | $9,200 |
Costs are based on completion of 12 total credits.
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View funding optionsGraduate Application deadlines
International | July 24 |
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Domestic | Aug. 7 |
International | Dec. 12 |
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Domestic | Dec. 26 |
International | April 10 |
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Domestic | April 24 |
Fall | Spring | Summer | |
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International | July 24 | Dec. 12 | April 10 |
Domestic | Aug. 7 | Dec. 26 | April 24 |
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Phone | +1 561-237-7900 |
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