<p>I am highly interested in attending one of the following schools for sports management, I've done most of my research about Michigan but not as much about the other schools. Anyone have any information that can assist me? Also to add on to that, I want to know how important an undergrad in sports management is. I want to go to grad school after undergrad and study SM but I would prefer starting off with SM courses in undergrad. The field of sports management I want to go into is Professional Manangement, such as a NBA GM, director of player personal, president of basketball operations, etc.</p>
<p>Here is mylist of schools (in order of preference) I would like to know about their sports management programs: </p>
<p>Michigan
NYU
North Carolina
University of Miami
UCLA (not sure if they have a SM program tbh)
Notre Dame (not sure if they have one either)
UPENN
CAL
Columbia
UCF</p>
<p>If there are other schools you think I should consider please let me know.</p>
<p>Thank you for any information in advance, greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>First of all, realize that the competition will be tough as there are a glut of students in that area of study. There are many more students than there are jobs. </p>
<p>You do NOT have to major in this as an undergrad. It can be a grad major. For add’l flexibility, you should major in something else as an undergrad.</p>
<p>You have a few OOS publics on your list. Will your family pay the high costs? </p>
<p>what is your home state? Do you live in a state that has a big Div I school? If so, then they probably offer SM either as undergrad or grad. </p>
<p>Don’t spend a lot of money on this major as an undergrad. Not necessary and quite risky.</p>
<p>Competition is what it’s all about, and I might end up playing basketball for one of the schools so that will really help me and give me more connections. My home state is Florida, but my mom makes less than 50,000 a year so I think I should be fine with financial aid and maybe a partial/full scholarship. As far as SM for undergrad, I would prefer it but obviously if it does not benefit I’m not going to take it just to take it. I would probably do business management then SM.</p>
Are you good enough to be recruited to UMich or UCLA? If not you will be able to get a $5.5K loan and the other $45K will have to be paid by your parents. OOS public schools do not (generally) give $ to incoming students. They look for OOS students to be bill payers.</p>
<p>Im a borderline right now to get to those schools for basketball, Im going to keep working though and gain more exposure this spring/summer. NYU I definitely could play for its d3. My coach is good friends with Coach L (miami head coach) so that is the best possibility for me & ill be at a camp there this summer. Also, my sister went to UPENN and got full financial aid…also on usnews it says michigan FULLY meets 90% of the financial aid requirements on their students.</p>
<p>UPenn (and the other Ivies) has very good FA. UMich and UCLA do not for OOS students. UMich only meets need for 82% of its students (<a href=“Office of Budget and Planning”>Office of Budget and Planning) and meets full need for in-state students. That covers 60% of the entering freshman class. That leaves 22% for the remaining 40% of OOS students. And a loan counts as meeting need. Go over the the Financial Aid forum to learn more.</p>
<p>UMich’s aid stat really mostly applied to INSTATE students…not OOS students. UMich will highly gap most OOS students.</p>
<p>*My home state is Florida, but my mom makes less than 50,000 a year so I think I should be fine with financial aid and maybe a partial/full scholarship. *</p>
<p>You need to learn more about FA. Having a lot of financial need does not mean that you’d get it. Most schools do not have much aid to give and publics give their limited aid to instate students. </p>
<p>OOS publics charge high rates for a reason. It wouldn’t make much sense for them to charge high rates and then hand out a bunch of FA. </p>
<p>When you mention scholarships…are you talking about a recruited athletic scholarship? Are you being recruited? </p>
<p>UPenn and other top schools (not NYU) give great FA, but if you have a non-custodial parent, then his income and assets will count as well. </p>
<p>Would you qualify for merit scholarships? If so, what are your stats? GPA and test scores.</p>
<p>I’m taking the SAT in March and ACT in April, and I do qualify for National achievement and other African American scholarships. Yes, I have some interest for basketball but no offers yet that should start coming in spring/summer/school season depending on my performance in aau and hs. Does anyone viewing have information about any of these school’s sports management grad programs?</p>