Education
Alumnus profile, Ohio University | Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Derrick Hall graduated Ohio University with a Masters in Sports Administration in 1993 and was the recipient of the department’s Charles R. Higgins Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.
Liz Wanless, Ohio University | Text data, natural language processing, and the future of sport leaders
Dr Liz Wanless, assistant director of analytics and assistant professor of sports administration at Ohio University, on how the growth of natural language processing is changing professional sports and sports education.
Alumna profile, UMass | Heidi Pellerano, chief commercial officer at Concacaf
Heidi Pellerano took UMass’ MS in Sport Management in 1997-98, and afterwards joined the WNBA as coordinator of communications and eventually player personnel.
David B Tyler, UMass | The conflict and cash of rivalries
Dr B. David Tyler, co-founder of the Know Rivalry Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Northern Kentucky University, explains how the project aims to measure and dissect the risks and revenue of sporting rivalry.
Michelle Harrolle, USF | Universities rising to the challenge of educating esports leaders
Michelle Harrolle, director of the University of South Florida's Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management programme, writes that universities have a chance to get in on the ground floor by offering cutting-edge education to the esports leaders of the future.
Alumna profile, USF | Philicia Douglas, director of sales at the Birmingham Squadron
Philicia Douglas is an alum of the University of South Florida’s Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management Program, which she graduated in 2015.
#2 – University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MBA/MS Sport Management and MS Sport Management
UMass achieves a top-two finish for the fifth year in a row.
#1 in Europe | The Fifa Master at the International Centre for Sport Studies
The Fifa Master has been our top-ranked course in Europe for nine out of 10 years.
Matthew Taylor, Fifa Master | Sport during wartime
Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, discusses the research behind his book, Sport and the Home Front. Published in 2020, the book was shortlisted for the North American Society of Sports History monograph of the year and the British Society of Sports History Aberdare Prize for best book of the year.
Alumnus profile, Fifa Master | Jair Bertoni, director of member associations, Americas at Fifa
Jair Bertoni completed the Fifa Master in 2005 and afterwards went on to work for the European Professional Football Leagues for almost a decade
#2 in Europe | AISTS’s Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Administration and Technology
AISTS offers the second-highest ranked course in Europe for the second year in a row.
Alumnus profile, AISTS | Hisham Shehabi, co-founder and chief operating officer of N3XT Sports
A former Olympic swimmer, Hisham Shehabi took the Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Administration and Technology at AISTS in 2014-15
#3 in Europe | masterSport International Master’s in Strategic Management of Sports Organisations, Events and Facilities
Italy's masterSport completes the European podium, as well as claiming the Graduates' Choice award.
Marco Brunelli, masterSport | Stadiums of the future: A competitive factor for Italian football
Marco Brunelli is the founder and director of the MasterSport International Master’s in Strategic Management of Sports Organisations, Events and Facilities, which is based in the Universities of San Marino and Parma. Here, he presents an extract from an article on the underdevelopment of Italian stadium infrastructure and its impact on the wider sports landscape in the country.
masterSport alumnus profile | Paolo Arsillo, director of the Vivo Azzurro fan group at the Italian Football Federation (FIGC)
Paolo Arsillo attended the MasterSport international master’s in strategic management of sports organisations, events and facilities in 2003, and joined the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) the following y…
Josoor Institute aims to provide a long-term educational legacy from Qatar’s World Cup
The Josoor Institute was established in 2013 as the educational arm of Qatar’s World Cup 2022 organising committee, with a goal of securing a long-term dividend from that event by significantly boosting the country’s capacity to host major events. SportBusiness spoke with major stakeholders to discuss how it is working to secure that legacy, and their ambitions for Josoor’s future.
Pandemic set to leave lasting mark on sport management education
Last year, SportBusiness spoke with Columbia University’s Scott Rosner and Brunel University London’s Vassil Girginov about how the first few months of the Covid-19 outbreak had affected campus life. This year, we checked in with them again to find out about the effects of an entire year under the pandemic, and how they assess its likely long-term impact.
Celebrating 10 editions of the SportBusiness Postgraduate Rankings
To mark the milestone of the 10th annual edition of the Postgraduate Rankings, SportBusiness casts an eye back over the evolution of the sports academic sector and speaks to programme directors of the three courses to have topped the list during that time