The University of North Carolina’s Masters in Sport Administration is a new arrival into the top three for 2023, both in the US and Globally. This marks a rise of five and six places respectively when compared with last year’s rankings.
The two-year course, which is based out of the university’s Chapel Hill campus, sees students assigned a full-time internship within the UNC Athletic Department during their second year. Alumni Zach Lassiter discusses his experience of the internship below.
Each year the course cohort is comprised of nine fully funded students. The decision to limit this number to nine is a conscious one by the faculty, viewing this as the ideal group size to facilitate an effective experience for its students. It has, however, expanded this year with the launch of its dual MA/MBA degree, combining its Masters in Sports Administration with the university‘s Masters of Business Administration degree.
The programme director is Erianne Weight, who assumed the position in 2022 after many years where the course was under Barbara Osborne’s leadership.
Having been formed in 1982, the UNC celebrated the 40th anniversary of the programme in 2022.
2022-23 highlights:
- Launch of the MA/MBA degree.
- Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the original MA programme, including a 40th anniversary alumni reunion event in April this year.
- The institution’s online hybrid course also claims second position overall for online courses in the SportBusiness Postgraduate Rankings.