The competitive edge—that's what graduates of the Oregon MBA with a specialization in sports business gain.
From the program's winning combination of challenging coursework, numerous hands-on learning opportunities, and a network of connections in the sports industry, students receive an education that is second to none.
Specialization Requirements
To earn the sports business specialization on their transcripts, MBA students must take the following courses:
- The nine required core courses of the Oregon MBA (Accelerated MBA takes one core course: BE 625)
- The specific courses required for the specialization (see below)
- Electives of their own choosing from a wide range available in the Lundquist College of Business, as well as from other colleges and departments across the University of Oregon.
MBA Core Courses
First Fall Term
- ACTG 612: Financial Accounting
- FIN 612: Fundamentals of Finance
- MGMT 612: Managing Individuals and Organizations
- MKTG 612: Marketing Management
First Winter Term
- OBA 613: Operations Management
- FIN 613: Managerial Economics
First Spring Term
- MGMT 614: Strategic Management
- OBA 612: Quantitative Methods for Managers
Second Fall Term
- BE 625: Business Law and Ethics
Specialization Courses
Required Courses
To earn the sports business specialization on their transcripts, MBA students must take the following courses:
- MKTG 660: Marketing Research (take in first winter term)
- SBUS 607: Sports Business Seminar (take each term enrolled for specialization)
- SBUS 609: Strategic Planning Project (2 terms; take in second winter and spring terms)
- SBUS 650: Marketing and Sports Properties (take in first fall term)
- SBUS 652: Sports Sponsorship Alliances (take in first spring term)
- SBUS 655: Economic Aspects of Sports (take in second fall term)
Choose two:
- MGMT 610: Greening Sports and Events
- OBA 510: Sports Analytics
- SBUS 645: Sports Products
- SBUS 653: Legal Aspects of Sports Business
Potential Electives
- FIN 671: Corporate Finance and Valuation
- MGMT 635: Recognizing Business Opportunities
- MGMT 623: Negotiation
- OBA 544: Business Database Management Systems
Reach Your Career Goals
Program graduates are prepared to enter the following types of positions in the sports industry:
- Marketing Management: Planning and executing a marketing brief to manage an organization's marketing functions and resources.
- Team, League, and Federations Management: The relationship development and management between a company and a sports team, league, or federation.
- Event and Operations Management: Planning and executing an event to help reach a target audience through direct interaction with that consumer.
- Sponsorship Planning and Coordination: The development and management of sponsorship contracts to meet the needs of the sponsor and the organization.
- Client and Account Management: Relationship management between a client or account and an organization to ensure client needs are met.
- Brand Management: A marketing function that looks at how a brand is positioned in the market and how to best connect with the target consumer.
- Strategic Planning: Planning an organization’s strategic business goals for the short and long term.
- Project Management: The initiation, planning, and support of a particular goal or project. Sets clear indicators of performance and gates that must be met.
- Financial Management: Decisions related to the financial goals and performance of an organization.
- Market Research: The process of finding consumer insights and preferences through quantitative and qualitative data collection.
- Sales Management: The application of sales techniques as well as overseeing and guiding an organization's sales team.
- Fan Insights and Analytics: The process of understanding fans and their preferences in order to develop event plans and fan experiences.
- Fan Experience Management: The development and execution of a plan to create an interactive experience that keeps fans engaged.
- Corporate Responsibility Management: The development and management of a plan to assess, understand, and improve the impact an organization has on the world around it.
- Media Management: A marketing function that creates the relationship between brand and outside media entities, by controlling brand messages and where they are communicated.
- Technology Management: How an organization uses its technology to create a competitive advantage through planning, optimization, and forecasting.
- Digital and Social Media Management: A marketing function that focuses on the creation of digital content for social media.