I have been an adjunct professor at the Long Beach State Sport Management Program for a few years now.  I originally started teaching the marketing class to different learning teams and that has grown into me overseeing the internship experiences for all students within the program.  Although it is part-time, I love the opportunity to give back and mentor students who wish to make sports management a career of choice.

I also teach one of the three classes.  Recently, I tried an experiment with a learning team.  I offered each of the 26 students an opportunity to speak in front of the camera for 30 seconds.  They could sat whatever they wanted to about themselves and to market themselves to future employers.  The only restriction was that the message needed to be held to a maximum of 30 seconds.

I also told them I would post the videos on this blog.  That was it.  Now, I knew that all 26 students would not jump at the opportunity.  However, I was rather surprised that only four chose to sit down and deliver their personal message.  I taped their raw messages and only added their names into the video itself.  Unscripted, here is how they chose to present themselves.

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).

Other Programs we have featured at sportsinfo101 include:

Wichita State University Sports Management

Indiana University

UMASS

York College

Our regular Friday feature focuses on a different college program that offers a degree in sports management.  It could be undergraduate, graduate or doctorate level programs.  If you have not not secured sports management experience and still wish to work in the sports business, this is the next best opportunity to gain the experience and the network to achieve your dreams.

At the end of this post, there are links to other schools we have featured in the past.  Today, we feature the sports Management Program at Wichita State.

Name of the Program: Wichita State University

Degrees offered: B.A.-Sport Management, M.Ed.-Sport Management

Location: Wichita, KS

Length of the Program: B.A.-4 years, M.Ed.-2 years

Cost: Undergraduate: $149.90 per credit for residents / $417.70 per credit for non-residents
Graduate: $208.35 per credit for residents / $ 593.00 per credit for non-residents

Internship?: Yes Are they Required?: Yes for both programs

List a Few Internship Sites You Work With: Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, Univ. of Michigan, Disney Sports and Recreation

Tell us About Your Program: The mission of the Department of Sport Management at Wichita State University is to develop students into well-educated, ethical, competent sport management professionals. The department’s teaching, research, and service activities occur in a positive learning environment valuing both theory and practice. The department is led by faculty who also engage in intellectual inquiry and service to the community and profession.

The sport management degree programs at WSU offers a quality curriculum including courses such as sport marketing, sport law, sport management, and sport sociology. Students complete both practicum and internship requirements at the undergraduate level and an internship requirement at the graduate level.

Graduates of this program work in a variety of settings, including intercollegiate sports, minor and major league professional sports, park and recreation departments, and the health club industry.

What Makes the Program Unique?:
Excellent partnerships with local and regional sport organizations, a blend of full-time faculty and practitioners (i.e., lecturers) teaching classes

Official Web Site Address: Wichita State University

Total Students In Program: Undergraduate-120, Graduate-70

Number of Instructors: 3 full-time faculty, 10 lecturers and other faculty

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Other programs that have been featured in past weeks

Indiana University

UMASS

York College

All information is supplied by the University……

I have received quite a few emails from readers of the Sportsinfo101 blog asking for additional resources when it comes to earning a degree in sports management.  I will tell you that working in an internship is the best hands on approach.  Today though, many teams and businesses turn to colleges and universities to find interns and employees.

It is no surprise then that more than 300 schools and universities around the world offer undergraduate and graduate degrees.  From time to time, we will begin featuring different Sports Management programs.  If you would like your institution to be considered, please post a comment or contact me directly from the Contact tab at the top of this blog.

Today, to kick things off, here is the skinny on the UMASS Sports Program.

Name of the Program: Department of Sport Management

Degrees Offered: BS, MS, MS/MBA, PhD

Location:   University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management

Length of the Program: BS-4 yrs, MS-1.5 yrs, MS/MBA-2 yrs, PhD-4 yrs

Cost: BS-Tuition and Fees per semester (In State)-$5,866.  (Out of State)-$11,614.

MS, MS/MBA, PhD-Tuition and Fees per semester (In State)-$5,133.  (Out of State)-$9,471.

Internship: Yes        Are they Required?: No

List a Few Internship Sites You Work With:

UMass Amherst students have completed internships in various departments with teams in Major League Baseball, minor league baseball, the National Basketball Association, the Women’s National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, the National Football League, the United States Golf Association, Major League Soccer, the Major Indoor Lacrosse League, the Arena Football League, and many Olympic Governing Bodies. They have also interned in league offices of the NBA, NHL, MLB, WNBA, WUSA, and NASCAR, as well as Boston College, Ohio State, Notre Dame, and the universities of Illinois, Michigan, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Hartford, and San Diego. Sport marketing agencies such as PSP Sports, 16W, IMG, Octagon, SFX, Woolf Associates, Clarion, Millsport, and Velocity regularly recruit UMass Amherst Sport Management interns, as do HCC Specialty Underwriters, World Wrestling Entertainment, Pinnacle Systems, MasterCard Sports, the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Women’s Sports Foundation, professional golf and tennis tours and events, and major sports facilities and television and cable networks.

Tell Us About Your Program:

The Department of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts prepares undergraduate and graduate students for a variety of positions in the sports industry. The goal of the faculty and the department is to create a collaborative and nurturing learning environment for analyzing and resolving the challenges in the business and culture of sports. With this as a foundation, students can enter the industry with exceptional knowledge, exceptional preparation, a strong alumni network, and the confidence to assume leadership positions.

What Makes the Program Unique?:

Utilizes a cutting-edge, experienced-based curriculum to best prepare our undergraduate and graduate students to be leaders in the spectator sport industry.

Has a large Sport Management industry-focused faculty teaching lively and challenging classes.

Boasts one of the few programs actually housed in a business school.

Has a 3,000+ member alumni directory. Many alumni who are Sport Management industry professionals and highly regarded in their field come back as guest speakers and mentor our undergrads and grads about their own career paths.

Has extensive Sport Management Internship database with connections across the sport industry that can help further your own personal network.

Offers the best of experiential learning classes in the country. You can get “real-world” experience from classes in event management, sponsorship, sales, community relations, sport marketing research, and event marketing. You will work with organizations in the industry that will enhance your knowledge, experience and networking.

Official Web Site Address: www.isenberg.umass.edu/sportmgt

Total Students In Program: BS- 470, MS-22, MS/MBA-10, Ph.D.-5

Number of Instructors: Full-Time-12, Part-Time-3

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All the information about the school has been provided by the learning institution.