Mississippi State Sports Management Program
Thanksgiving holiday or no Thanksgiving holiday we continue with our weekly Friday feature on sports management programs. Before we begin, I hope you are enjoying the extended weekend. For those of you that didn’t wake up at 3:00 a.m. to start the Black Friday holiday shopping rush, I am glad you joined us here. Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom of the page so you may see other Programs featured in this sports business blog from past weeks. There are more than 300 Programs so we have a lot of ground to cover!
Today, we are visiting the southern section of the United States and the Mississippi State Sports Management Program.
Here is a breakdown on their program, what they offer and the opportunities within their program.
Mississippi State University
Degrees offered:
Master’s degree in Sport Administration
Bachelor’s degree in Sport Studies (Business & Communication)
Location: Starkville, MS
Length of the Program:
Master’s program – approximately 2 years
Bachelor’s program – approximately 4 years
Cost: Full-time tuition is as follows:
Undergraduate Resident – $2,575.50 per semester
Undergraduate Non-Resident (add to resident tuition) – $3,934.75 per semester
Graduate Resident – $2,575.50 per semester
Graduate Non-Resident (add to resident tuition) – $3,934.75 per semester
Do you Offer Internships?: Yes
Are they Required?: All students in the program are required to complete an internship.
List a Few Internship Sites You Work With: Recent internship sites include:
Professional Sport:
* Dallas Cowboys
* New Orleans Saints
* New Jersey Nets
* Tacoma Raniers (AAA Baseball)
* Birmingham Barons (AA Baseball)
* Memphis Redbirds (AA Baseball)
* Mississippi Braves (AA Baseball)
* U.S. Open Golf
* Hendrick Motorsports
* Joe Gibbs Racing
Collegiate Sports:
* Mississippi State Athletics
* Vanderbilt Athletics
* Tennessee Athletics
* LSU Athletics
* Alabama-Huntsville Athletics
* Samford Athletics
* College World Series (Omaha, NE)
* Allstate Sugar Bowl
* Learfield Sports
Olympic Sports:
* U.S. Olympic Training Center (Colorado Springs, CO)
* USA Rugby (Colorado Springs, CO)
Media Organizations:
* Commercial Dispatch (newspaper in Columbus, MS)
* Starkville Daily News (newspaper in Starkville, MS)
* WCBI-TV (CBS affiliate for Columbus, MS)
* WKRN-TV (ABC affiliate in Nashville, TN)
* WQOX (radio station in Memphis, TN)
* WQJB (radio station in Starkville, MS)
* MTV
Tell us About Your Program: Our master’s degree in Sport Administration is designed for individuals who endeavor to hold leadership positions within professional sport, collegiate sport, and recreational sport, in such areas as sport marketing & sponsorships, event & facility management, sport media & communications, athletic development & fundraising, and ticketing & operations.
The bachelor’s degree in Sport Studies offers students the ability to choose a specialty in either business or communication. The sport business cognate is designed to prepare students to work in fields related to management, development, sponsorship, marketing, planning, organizing, budgeting, operations, and leadership at the professional, collegiate, and recreational levels of the sport industry. The sport communication cognate, meanwhile, is designed to prepare students to work in such fields as sport journalism, broadcasting, public relations, media relations, and videography.
Official Web Site Address: http://kinesiology.msstate.edu/sports/
Total Students In Program:
Master’s program – 30 students
Bachelor’s program – 85 students
Number of Instructors: The Department of Kinesiology employs more than 20 faculty members dedicated to providing high quality educational and research experiences for students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Faculty with primary advisory roles in Sport Administration are Dr. Adam Love (alove@colled.msstate.edu) and Dr. Alan Morse (amorse@colled.msstate.edu).
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