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Stay Ahead of the Game
with a Nichols MBA in Sport Management

 

Now you can combine a love of business with a love of sports, and do it all online. This is the kind of degree that opens doors in the sport and business field, and all you need is a computer and access to the Internet.

Students complete 36 - 45 credits in three levels of courses: Common Skills, Business Essentials, and Practical Choices as indicated below. There are four disciplines of choice including Accounting & Finance, Economics; and Management Decision Making,and Marketing.

A student's program of study will be dependant on the number of Common Skills courses the student needs. This will be determined by the Director of Academic Programs upon receipt of the student's official undergraduate transcript(s). Students must complete a program of study that includes the appropriate number of Common skills courses, Business Essentials and Practical Choice electives.

Common Skills (3-21 credits)

Students who have completed undergraduate business courses with a C or better may be permitted to waive Common Skills courses after evaluation of an official undergraduate transcript.

GSB 501 Effective Business Communication *required
GSB 502 Management Theory
GSB 503 Business Quantitative Tools & Statistics
GSB 504 Accounting for Managers
GSB 505 Marketing for Managers
GSB 506 Financial Management
GSB 507 Applied Economics

Business Essentials (9 credits)

GSPT 600 Sport Enterprise Management *required
GSB   602 The Leadership Experience *required
GSB   603 International Business *required

Practical Choices (12-21 credits)

Twelve (12) credits must be in sport management, one from each of the Practical Choice areas.

Accounting & Finance

Marketing Management

GSPT 701 Sports Finance & Business *required

GSPT 721 Sports Marketing *required

GSB 701 Managerial Cost Analysis

GSB 721 Sales Management 

GSB 702 Taxation for Managers

GSB 722 Marketing Research

GSB 703 Financial Reporting

GSB 723 New Product Development

GSB 704 International Finance

GSB 724 International Mktg            

GSB 705 Financial Decision Making

GSB 725 Marketing Strategies

GSB 706 Mgmt Accounting & Control

GSB  727 E-commerce Strategy

GSB 707 Investments & Securities

 

 

 

Management Decision Making

Economics

GSPT 731 Social-Historical Foundations of Sport *required

GSPT 711 - Sport Law *required 

GSB 731 Entrepreneurship

GSB 711 Managerial Econ

GSB 732 Operations Management 

GSB 712 International Econ

GSB 733 HR Management 

GSB 713 Monetary & Fiscal Policy          

GSB 734 Advanced Statistical Techniques 

GSB 714 Bus, Govt, Global Econ

GSB 736 Internet Lit & Web Page Design

 

Capstone Course (3 credits)

GSB 800 Strategic Management *required



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