PGR2022

SportBusiness has today launched the 11th edition of its Postgraduate Course Rankings, naming University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MBA/MS Sport Management and MS Sport Management as the world’s best pos…
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Professor Dino Ruta speaks to former NBA player Damjan Rudež in the first of a new series of interviews with former athletes about their post-playing career.
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masterSport's International Master’s in Strategic Management of Sports Organisations, Events and Facilities rises one place in the European rankings to second.
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Niccolò Donna, head of FIGC Research & Development and chief of the Italian Football Module (MasterSport - University of Parma & University of San Marino) discusses the profile of Italian Football and the strategic assets to focus on, in order to enhance the growth of Calcio.
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After graduating in Economics at the SAA in Turin, Niccolò Donna earned the masterSport International Master of Sport Management.
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Simon Hernandez Oramas completed his Master’s Degree in International Sports Management at the European Sport Business School in 2019.
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Carmen Ruano, academic director of the ESBS Master in International Sports Management, discusses the role of women in the sports industry and what more can be done to increase the presence of women in the space.
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ESBS Master in International Sports Management returns to the European top three.
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Heather O’Keefe is a FIFA Master Alumna 2021 and current revenue strategy and planning trainee at FIFA. The following article shines a light on one of the group projects undertaken by O’Keefe and some of her classmates from the 2021 FIFA Master edition. 
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Rhali Amrani completed the FIFA Master in 2012 and took up a role as part of the organising committee behind the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in the first half of the following year
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The FIFA Master takes top spot in Europe for the 10th year out of the 11 the Postgraduate Rankings have been running.

Jim Riordan, the founder of Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) MBA Sport Management Programme, leaves a substantial legacy at FAU and across the wider sports industry after sadly passing away in March o…
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SportBusiness speaks to Jason Chung, the man helping to craft New York University’s approach to esports education, and Rick Burton, David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University, about the challenges universities and academics face in teaching esports – and some of the practices they recommend to deal with them. We also hear from Matteo Masini of masterSport to hear about how the institute responded to industry interest to create an esports-focused masters.
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Some of the top performers on networking-related metrics provide perspectives on best practice in the area.

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.
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Kristine Prokopec is an alumna of the University of South Florida’s Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management Programme, which she graduated in 2015.
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The University of South Florida’s Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management programme finishes in third place in the Postgraduate Rankings for the second consecutive year.

Dr. Mónica Lebrón was part of Ohio University’s graduating class of 2003, earning a MS/MBA in Sports Administration. Dr. Le