The UCCS Sport Management program offers high-level academic and professional training that prepares its graduates to excel in exciting and fulfilling management careers in the sport management industry.

The entire curriculum involves two concurrent educational streams.

• An undergraduate program in business consisting of 120 semester credit hours.
• Twelve months of off-campus internships under the supervision of the Sport Management Internship Coordinator and professional managers in our partnership organizations.

This section describes the contents of the undergraduate program in business. Other sections of the web site describe the internships.

The College of Business holds international accreditation earned from the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business. AACSB is the most prestigious accrediting body for management education in the world and has been in existence since the early twentieth century. This accreditation is granted to only approximately 30 percent of all undergraduate business programs in the United States. It is based on such yardsticks as our academic standards, the qualifications of our faculty, the characteristics of our students, our curriculum, and our quality control processes. This accreditation assures students at UCCS that they have access to one of the better undergraduate business programs in the country.

About two thirds of the academic coursework in the Sport Management program is taken in the College of Business with the remainder in areas outside business, thus providing students with broad educational experiences. Most of the academic program is identical to the program pursued by all Business and Marketing majors. More specific information about the academic curriculum requirements can be found in the College of Business undergraduate curriculum.

Unlike other business students, Sport Management students take specialized academic and professional courses that develop their expertise in the areas essential to a successful career in the sport management industry.

Presented below are the requirements included in the Sport Management program curriculum (as proposed in October 2007); the courses are presented in the sequence that students are expected to follow as they complete the program. (This curriculum may be changed by the faculty of the University and College of Business in response to new needs in education.)

Download the Curriculum in full.

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