<p>What are the best schools, and does anyone know about the Sport Administration program at Louisville. Thanks any info would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>UMass
Ohio U
Bowling Green
Ithaca
Springfield College
Temple
Texas</p>
<p>University of Oregon has a really good program in “Sports Marketing”. I’m not sure if that’s the same thing, but the Nike World Campus is in Oregon, and Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, is an alumn there, so I’m sure they’d have good sports business programs in general.</p>
<p>Is a degree in this field really useful though…?</p>
<p>If your school is reputable and has good connections, yes.</p>
<p>^I disagree. I personally feel like Sports Management is the silliest degree a business school offers. I know a few people in the sports agency field and a LOT of people who works with the professional teams in my city. I don’t think any of them majored in sports management. A major like sports management will limit you SO much in terms of entry level employement. You could use connections to get a job with a sports team with many business degrees but if you lack the connections than what happens when you try to apply for another job and they see you majored in Sports Management? If you want to work in sports go to a school with good academics and great teams. Get some sort of job in the Athletic Admin department and make your connections but don’t limit your employment opportunities to such a hit and miss field.</p>
<p>My school has 100% job placement in the field, so I’m not particularly worried. I’ve talked to plenty of people in the sports world, and while most of them majored in something unrelated to business, they said it won’t hold me back. Again, it only limits you if your school has bad connections. My school has connections with around 7 MLB teams, several minor league baseball teams, and plenty of other professional sports teams. We have an alum who is very high up in the Tampa Bay Rays organization and indeed majored in SM.</p>
<p>Well you kind of just proved my point. You say you have talked to “plenty of people” in the sports world and you can name only one high up official who majored in SM, so the statistics are kind of against you. </p>
<p>It is obviously (from your own statement) a better route to get a general business degree (like Marketing, with a focus in sports perhaps) and go to a school, like yours, with connections. Then you can gain the connections that are so important in the sports business and you don’t limit yourself to just one field by majoring in something like SM.</p>
<p>And I’d like to know what school in this economy has 100% job placement? The MLB, NBA, and even the giant the NFL have all made cutbacks on the business side so I can’t honestly believe that your school has 100% placement.</p>
<p>No, I named someone from our program who is highly successful within the major. He’s not the only one. </p>
<p>Also, it far from limits you. It’s basically like a Liberal Arts type major, where you study all different disciplines. I think it’s helpful, especially in the sports industry, but if you’re interested in tourism or marketing, you’re not going to be screwed.</p>
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<p>I’m not sure what your last post means when you said this^. I didn’t say that because you only met one person that he is the only one, I was just saying that you clearly stated the majority of people you met were not SM majors so that alone shows that it is just as easy, if not easier, to get into Sports Admin. by majoring in a more well rounded field. </p>
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<p>I’d really like to see some job placement statistics for these top programs you’ve named. Perhaps you can provide a link to your schools placement statistics so I can see where these majors got good jobs or jobs outside of the sports field? I would think that if you majored in SM you would be at a large disadvantage for competitive jobs outside of sports. You may not be screwed if you don’t go into sports, but I have to think that an employer is going to prefer a Marketing Major for the jobs you are talking about much more than a SM major.</p>
<p>It is well rounded. That’s the damn point. I’m not going to bother wasting my time looking up statistics and stuff for you. Do your own research.</p>
<p>Getting a bit defensive…</p>
<p>The DAMN point is you contradicted yourself. You say it won’t hold you back in the sports field yet you said most people in sports didn’t major in sports management. So, since that is the case, what are the benefits in majoring something that a lot of good schools don’t even bother to offer? </p>
<p>Where did you get access to the statistic that your school had 100% job placement? Which I HIGHLY doubt by the way. If you want to respond I suggest you offer up a little more for your argument than an empty statistic like that. </p>
<p>Here are some things I found:</p>
<p>[sportsad.ohio.edu:</a> Class of 2010 Profile](<a href=“http://www.sportsad.ohio.edu/prospects/2010profiles/]sportsad.ohio.edu:”>http://www.sportsad.ohio.edu/prospects/2010profiles/)</p>
<p>Notice this is for their MBA program. What is the common theme? Most majored in something other than SM for their undergrad. I whipped through it and counted 28 students, 2 majored in SM for Undergrad.</p>
<p>[sportsad.ohio.edu:</a> Class of 2011 Profile](<a href=“http://www.sportsad.ohio.edu/prospects/11profile/]sportsad.ohio.edu:”>http://www.sportsad.ohio.edu/prospects/11profile/)</p>
<p>Here is a bit more favorable for the undergrad major. Still, a minority.</p>
<p>Same for UMass:</p>
<p>[Isenberg</a> School of Management: Sport Management Department MS/MBA 2008 2nd Year Student Bios](<a href=“http://www.isenberg.umass.edu/sportmgt/Dual_Degree/2007-08_MSMBA_1st_Year_Student_Bios/]Isenberg”>http://www.isenberg.umass.edu/sportmgt/Dual_Degree/2007-08_MSMBA_1st_Year_Student_Bios/)</p>
<p>So, I looked up the two top programs you listed and looked at the MBA programs. A large majority did not major in SM. Once again showing that SM for your undergrad is often times a bad route to take.</p>
<p>I’m going to be defensive if you’re going to attack my major.</p>
<p>I’m not attacking your major. I am giving my opinion. The poster I responded to asked:</p>
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<p>Of course someone who is majoring in it is going to say yes. However, according to the “research” I just did and the experiences you talked about when you said “I’ve talked to plenty of people in the sports world, and while most of them majored in something unrelated to business,” it’s not a useful major [. . .] I’m showing him the facts. And the facts say that it isn’t that useful of a major. I didn’t post those facts thinking I really want to make dionte feel like his major sucks, I was helping the guy who asked the question.</p>
<p>I asked you to show me the statistics you talked about (the 100% job placement) yet you still haven’t. I can easily say the major at my school “American Studies” is useful, but until I can show that it actually is they are only words. I gave the opinion that it wasn’t and showed you some things that backed that up. Please…prove me wrong.</p>
<p>What does the MBA program have to do with anything? It’s law school that’s the graduate school option…</p>
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<p>Still waiting for these placement statistics at your school. You can provide them and actually prove me wrong or you can continue to try to make my posts seem irrelevant or hostile. If you do the latter of the two it isn’t doing anything to back up the fact that you say SM is useful. </p>
<p>You also once again tried to provide a fact that would prove me wrong yet you provide no evidence. Law School may be the path to Sports Agency, but that’s not the focus of our discussion. The reputable programs for SM are MBA programs. </p>
<p>I didn’t do some major search for SM statistics. I just found something that showed that people looking to get into the Sports field are not often majoring in SM.</p>
<p>I dont need to prove anything to you. You have no reason to be in this discussion. You know nothing about my major, the job prospects, the schools, so see your way out.</p>
<p>If anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me. Avoid this clueless ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Still have nothing to show that proves your major is worth ANYTHING beyond a piece of paper? I wasn’t trying to prove anything to you either. I was proving to the guy who asked the question that it really isn’t the best way to get into sports. Why aren’t you proving that to him?</p>
<p>You can’t provide it because the facts because they don’t exist. I actually provide info on the major by giving a few links and because you are wrong you call me a clueless ■■■■■? REAL mature. You get defensive because you claim I am attacking you and you start saying I’m a ■■■■■. You do a very good job contradicting yourself.</p>
<p>Yeah, knowing the owner of MLB baseball teams is going to put me in a position of ticket sales. Darn, I’m screwed. LMAO @ You</p>
<p>I believe that you have those connections as much as I believe that you were told your SM program has a 100% job placement rate.</p>
<p>Also by saying that, are you saying that you have to have those kind of connections to get a decent job?</p>
<p>Look, once again, you posted something that can’t be proven (unless you want to get him to send me an email)! You claim that SM is well rounded, I guess it doesn’t touch on trying to successfully prove a point.</p>