<p>I'd love to get a major in sports management. My dream is to work for a baseball team, even though it would require a lot of work. I'd love to work in the baseball operations department because I love statistics. I even run my own blog. I'm at a crossroad though. If I got a major in sports management should I get a minor in say business? Would I still be able to find a job in the regular business world? I'm a freshman who's starting off at a community college even though my grades were good enough to go to a school like the U of Minnesota or Madison. Help!</p>
<p>Great question! I would definitely minor in business or entrepreneurship. If you are not immediately able to find a job with a baseball team, you may want to be a sports agent to a professional athlete someday. Good luck!!</p>
<p>That’d probably require a law degree but thanks for the advice! A minor would definitely be helpful.</p>
<p>It depends on the program. South Carolina is one of the top Sports Management programs and is a business based program with many,many required courses in the B school. It has two required internships and has a great record of placement.</p>
<p>Sports Management is a niche degree, so know that going in. If you’re fine with it, than definitely do it. Business would be a fine minor. There are other possibilities too. Finance, statistics, communication, economics, and Spanish would be practical for baseball.</p>
<p>Work your connections. Connections is what will matter, especially at the beginning. Get a job or internship with a local organization. Surround yourself with the industry. You may have to be a bit more understated with your blogging if you want to get in on the business side, because eventually that could cause a conflict of interest (as in, going too far down the journalist road makes it hard to switch to the industry you’re writing about).</p>
<p>eadad is correct. The best Sports Management or Recreation Management programs will be tied to the Business department of the school and require many business courses as part of the major. My D has decided to study Recreation Management, and is required to take 10 business courses (accounting, statistics, management, human resource related courses, business law, etc) as well as 9 courses in the recreation field (like adult development, recreational therapy, designing recreation programs, child development, etc.) Some of the nine she gets to choose, a few are required. Definitely fairly rigorous, not fluff at all. Students at her school also intern at least once, and get all sorts of jobs after graduation, not just with sports teams, but all connected to sports somehow. The business courses really help with student marketability, I think.</p>