MSc Sports Directorship

Entry requirements

It takes an ambitious person to take part in the course. We’re looking for self-starters who possess a combination of skills, experience and the desire to succeed. You may be working in a sporting environment, for instance in a coaching, finance or marketing role, looking for the next crucial step in your sporting career. Alternatively, you may be in a business role, and seeking to make the move into sport to use your business skills in a new way.

Entry onto the course is therefore through a blend of life experience, career and reason for wanting to do the course.

Months of entry

January, September

Course content

This elite executive postgraduate course is designed to equip sports professionals and leaders with the skills to develop a successful vision and deliver for the long-term success of sports organisations via the prominent role of Sporting Director.

The MSc Sports Directorship degree will qualify you for one of the most important roles today in modern global sport, that of Sporting Director, and critically, will provide you with the skills, knowledge and experience to equip you to sit in a strategic leadership role in a sporting organisation.

Covering sports leadership, personal development, masterminding innovation and change, sport governance and best practice – alongside a diverse range of hands-on extra-curricular activities – the course provides unrivalled preparation for the role of the sporting director. At the heart of the course is the application of neuroscience.

Taught over two years in four modules plus an applied research project, the course is delivered in a format which allows you to combine study and work in a way that best suits your working life. In year one you will spend nine blocks of two days from September to August on campus and in year two you will spend three blocks of two days from September to November on campus, with project work to be completed in your own time.

Designed to fit both on-campus learning and remote study around your work commitments, the course equips you with all the skills and practical experience needed to become a sports business professional, meaning you can take your next career step with confidence.

Graduate with the MSc Sports Directorship and join an elite group with the ability to apply for the role of a sporting director with a tailored degree under your belt.