<p>Hi all. Though my DS2 is looking at music schools, one of his best friends is looking for a medium-sized school with an excellent business program, maybe sports marketing. Somewhere around the 6000-ish student range? I told her the CC wizards wouldn't let us down! Suggestions? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>The school is bigger than you want, but take a look at the U of Oregon - excellent sports marketing heavily influenced by relationship with Nike.
There is a highly regarded Honors College within the Univ that may make it feel more like the size you like and don't know your location, but the school participates in the WUE tuition exchange program if you are in the some parts of the western US</p>
<p>Info on WUE and Oregon</p>
<p>The Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) is a program of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). WUE allows selected students from eligible western states who enroll at the University of Oregon (UO) in WUE-eligible programs to pay 150 percent of regular resident tuition plus any fees that all students are required to pay. For example, a WUE student at the UO during 2007-8 paid $8,497 in tuition and fees, compared to $19,338 paid by other nonresident undergraduates, for an award of $10,857. A limited number of WUE awards are made each year. Consideration is competitive and space is limited.</p>
<p>Eligibility Requirements
The following information includes the qualifications and process for the WUE program at the UO for the 2007-8 academic year.</p>
<pre><code>* WUE is open to first-time entering freshmen only. Transfer applicants and continuing non-WUE UO students are not eligible for consideration.
- You must be a permanent resident of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Washington or Wyoming. </code></pre>
<p>S is entering is junior year majoring in Sports Management (broader scope but business based than sports marketing) at University of South Carolina. You don't indicate what area of the country is of preference, if any.
There is an industry association called the North American Society for Sports Management. Their website nassm.com is how we started compiling his list.There are programs of varying quality all over the US. S wanted a larger population b/c he wanted big time Div 1 sports on campus,with the requisite Athletic department structure.
PM me if you want more info on what we know!</p>
<p>I think Bowling Green State in Ohio has a great music department and a sports management program.</p>
<p>Indiana University has a very good business school, and a Sport Marketing degree from the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.</p>
<p>LOL--thanks Drizzit. We are in Oregon, and that's definitely on his list, but he was thinking more about liberal arts privates. anyone?</p>
<p>I think University of Southern California could be a good match, even though it is big (around 16,000 undergrads). Despite its size, you get the personal touch of a private school, and a very strong business school (ranked 9 for undergrad programs). There is a Sports Business Institute and a student organization relating to sports management and marketing.</p>
<p>Wouldn't recommend USC at all for Sports Management. With business programs, you miss out on the connections that have been developed between sports companies and sports management programs throughout the years, you don't have the career center that has helped place students in the sport industry throughout the years, and you miss out on the alumni network because people are taking jobs in other industries. USC is simply a business program with a Sport Management club, and if you are serious about working in sports, you would be wise not to go somewhere where you would be relying on a student club for job placement.</p>
<p>I would look at the University of Miami, smaller school (private), has a good business school with a ton of opportunities in the greater Miami area, and a very good SM program. Not liberal arts, but not large either. Keep in mind at most of the liberal arts privates, you miss out on the big time sports that major universities offer and getting involved with your athletic department while in school is essential to landing a job because it gives you experience on your resume.</p>
<p>the nassm.com website link to "programs" will connect you to the website of every sports management program in the U.S. from there, you can judge the size/quality of each program.
S looked very closely at Rice U's program,which might fit your size/private LAC type criteria. He judged it to be too small for his tastes and of course, you would have to meet the entrance standards of the school,but it has an excellent regional reputation and a very active Dep't Chairman.</p>
<p>depaul in chicago maybe</p>
<p>baylor sounds like a good match. they have a sports sponsorship and sales program that sounds quite interesting, and a size only slightly larger than what you mentioned</p>
<p>from the baylor site:
Only 15 AACSB-accredited universities in the United States offer a sports degree program housed in its School of Business:</p>
<p>11 focus on sports business or management (not marketing),
two offer MBAs with a marketing emphasis (UK, IU),
one offers a concentration in sports marketing (Duquesne), and
only one offers a complete undergraduate major in sports marketing (University of Oregon).</p>
<p>if he wants a sports marketing major, it seems like oregon is the only option...but it also looks like you should look into duquesne</p>
<p>Baylor</a> University || Marketing || Sports Sponsorship & Sales</p>
<p>These are great suggestions--thanks so much!!!! I've already passed them on.</p>
<p>What is great about Baylor is that most of the universities are sport management programs, and the problem with that is that most of the jobs are sales positions at the entry-level where you have to work your way up. Being a program that matches with the needs of the industry really sets them apart from sport management programs that are essentially physical education and Kinesiology based.</p>
<p>Look into George Washington Univ's Sport</a>, Event and Hospitality Management program.</p>
<p>Baylors program is strictly sales and sponsorship and is closed admission.. that is, it takes only 20 students per year when they enter the junior year.Thats also when the student enters the business school.So if the student changes their focus, they may be out of luck in that program (for instance if they decide they like event management or venue management as a concentration).S has also greatly enjoyed his Sport Law courses and his upcoming ability to write a senior research thesis on a selected sports management topic,and that program may be too limited in scope to introduce sew students to those topics..
On the other hand they guarantee the two internship placements with their advisory board members and look like theres good scholrship opportunities for high academic acheiving entering freshmen.
There is literally nothing like the U Oregon program and its Nike conections.
Take a look at the highly recommended to my S...U of Central Florida's program (DeVos Institute).They've raided the top faculty at other Spts Mgmt programs including the main guy from Ohio State one of the founding fathers of the major.</p>
<p>Syracuse has sports management.</p>