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Sport Management with Placement

Entry requirements


From a minimum of 2 A Levels

Accepted when studied alongside other Level 3 qualifications

Access to HE Diploma

M:45

Pass in Access course with 60 credits overall including 45 Level 3 credits passed with a minimum of Merit.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

HNC (BTEC)

P-D

HND (BTEC)

P-M

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

28-31

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma

D*D

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma

DMM

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Diploma (QCF)

D*D

Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF)

DMM

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

D*D

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DMM

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

T Level

M

UCAS Tariff

104-120

From a minimum of 2 A Levels or equivalent qualifications such as BTEC Extended Diploma or OCR Extended Diploma. For detailed information on accepted qualifications, please view our Course Entry Statement (https://www.solent.ac.uk/how-to-apply/documents/course-entry-requirement-statement.pdf) Solent University is a proud champion of widening participation. For further information about our contextual offer, please visit our website (https://www.solent.ac.uk/how-to-apply/what-next/contextual-offers)

This qualification is accepted when taken alongside other qualifications.

About this course


Course option

4years

Full-time with year in industry | 2024

Subject

Sports management

This innovative course will enable you to develop the skills required to successfully manage and lead a variety of sports, events, organisations and people.

This degree focuses on business and management within the sports industry. You’ll study a combination of management, policy and sociology modules, developing a thorough and critical understanding of sport management issues and theory.

There is also the option to focus on two different pathways, outdoor adventure management and football business management.

Outdoor adventure management will cover coaching, outdoor studies, event management and include topics such as nature therapy, outdoor education, adventure recreation (with tourism) and extreme sports. While football business management offers a rounded business education, with all learning contextualised to the football environment. Potential topics covered include marketing, management, football development, sociology, organisational behaviour and strategic planning.

With employability at its core, you’ll be able to develop practical and professional skills through a variety of placement options from a four-week work placement unit to a sandwich year-long placement.

The course team’s established industry links have provided previous students with the opportunity for valuable industry work experience. Past students have also benefitted from talks delivered by guest lecturers, giving insight around current issues in the industry to help build their knowledge and network of contacts.

You’ll learn from a teaching team with a broad range of academic and industry experience.

**What does this course lead to?**
This course can lead to careers in the business and management side of the sports industry - potential career paths include marketing, finance, sport events, sport tourism and adventure sport.

The skills you’ll build up on the course could also create entrepreneurial opportunities, such as setting up your own sports business enterprise.

**Who is this course for?**
This programme is the ideal way for applicants to combine their love of sport with essential business and management skills.

Applicants come from a wide range of academic backgrounds and tend to be aspiring to careers in sports marketing, centre management, coaching, sports development and sports administration or developing their own business.

Modules

YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Health and Safety Operations
Industry Awareness and Employability
Management and Organisational Behaviour
Marketing Principles
Research and Study Skills
Social and Cultural Issues

YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Planning Live Projects
Event Leadership and Marketing
Human Resources and Performance Management
Research Methods

YEAR 2 OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each academic year)
Adventure and Outdoor Recreation
Outdoor Learning and Coaching
Policy in Practice
Sociological Perspectives
Technical and Tactical Performance Analysis and Recruitment
The Politics, Culture and Sociology of Football

YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Dissertation
Strategic Management and Consultancy

YEAR 3 OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each academic year)
Business Start-Up
Football, Sustainability and Social Change
Global and Contemporary Issues
Globalisation of Football
Managing Outdoor Learning and Adventurous Activities
Professional Practice in Football Development
Sociology of Extreme and Lifestyle Sports
Strategic Sport Development

Assessment methods

You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods including written assignments, practical simulations, in-course tests, case studies, reflective portfolios, group work, reports, presentations and exams.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£16,125
per year
International
£16,125
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£9,250
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

Extra funding

Solent University offers a number of bursaries, grants and scholarships. For more information, please visit https://www.solent.ac.uk/finance/grants-bursaries-scholarships/bursaries

The Uni


Course location:

Solent University (Southampton)

Department:

Department of Sport and Health

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What students say


We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

60%
Sports management

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

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Teaching and learning

76%
Staff make the subject interesting
84%
Staff are good at explaining things
71%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
58%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

79%
Library resources
86%
IT resources
72%
Course specific equipment and facilities
53%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

69%
UK students
31%
International students
85%
Male students
15%
Female students
53%
2:1 or above
18%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
C
C

After graduation


The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Tourism, transport and travel

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£19,000
med
Average annual salary
93%
low
Employed or in further education
78%
high
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

28%
Sports and fitness occupations
20%
Sales, marketing and related associate professionals
11%
Business, finance and related associate professionals

This course sits in a wide group of smaller subjects that don't necessarily have that much in common - so bear this in mind when you look at any employment data. Most graduates took a hospitality, events management or tourism-related course, but there are a group of sports and leisure graduates in here as well who do different things. Events management was the most common job for graduates from this group of subjects, and so it’s no surprise that graduates from specialist events management courses did better last year than many of the other graduates under this subject umbrella - but all did about as well as graduates on average or a little better. If you want to find out more about specific job paths for your chosen subject area, it's a good idea to go on open days and talk to tutors about what previous graduates went on to do, or to have a look at university department websites.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

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The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

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Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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