Sport Business & Leadership BSc (Hons)

• Overview

  This course has been temporarily suspended for this year, but we welcome applications for September 2021.

  BSc (Hons) Sport Business and Leadership places significant emphasis on the development of business and leadership skills, to meet the growing demand for sport business leaders, managers, and coaches in the national and international commercial sport business sector. The degree is split into three levels. In the first level you’ll develop a breadth of knowledge and skills, including sport management, sport marketing and communication, sport leadership, sociological aspects of sport, and sport coaching.

  In the second and third levels of the degree you’ll have the opportunity to specialise; choosing from a range of sport business and leadership concepts, including digital sport marketing, leadership and team dynamics, strategic sport management, global sport business, events design, and leading elite sport cultures.

  Whatever your ambitions, we’re here to help you to achieve them. We’ll support you to identify the skills you’re learning during your course, find your strengths and secure practical experience so that when it comes to applying for jobs or further study you’ll feel confident in standing out from the crowd.

  We are committed to helping you to achieve your career and study ambitions, which is why if you complete our Employability Plus Gold programme or Changemaker Gold certificate alongside your studies – and if you haven’t secured full-time employment 12 months after graduating* – we will secure a three – six month paid internship for you, or support you into postgraduate study.

  *with a 2:2 degree classification or higher

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  Course

  Highlights

  • Strong emphasis on employability with work placement opportunities for students at levels two and three
  • Close partnerships including Northampton Saints, Northampton Town FC, Northants FA, Northants County Cricket Club, and Northampton Leisure Trust.
  • Guaranteed paid internship with the Northampton Employment Promise.

  HP Laptop and software included with this course.*

  *Terms and Conditions apply

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• Course Details

  Sport Business & Leadership BSc (Hons) allows you to study key disciplines within sport business and leadership and includes an opportunity to undertake a work placement at a local sport organisation. A strong emphasis is placed on the application of theory to real-world issues affecting the commercial sector including, developing successful business strategy, managing sport governance issues, responding to market forces, building and leading successful teams, and organising and delivering sport events.

  The course provides a mixture of classroom-based sessions (to introduce theories and concepts) and practical activities that enable you to develop your own coaching and business leadership approach. We have also designed our assessments around real-life organisational problems and practices, e.g., having to create a sport marketing campaign, and designing and organising a successful sport event.

  Alongside the degree, you are also encouraged to take an active engagement in practical work experience with internships at the local professional football, rugby and cricket clubs, and volunteering in community sports clubs. We also offer the opportunity of attaining coaching qualifications whilst studying, which often run on campus. This varies year to year, but in the past has included Level 1 NGB courses, first aid and disability inclusion training and we work closely with local sport partners to offer reduced rates on courses wherever possible.

  Schedule

  This course can be studied over three years full-time, as a flexible part-time option, or over four years (Foundation Study Framework option).

  Assessments

  You will be assessed through a combination of essays, exams, reports, presentations and work placements.

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  Additional

  Information

  Placement Opportunities

  You will complete a work placement at a local sport organisation/provider, and you will learn the key principles of undertaking robust research projects.

• Careers and Events
  • Careers

    Employability

    Graduates from this course should be excellently placed to pursue a career in sport business and management, sport marketing, sport events management, sport coaching, move into further study, or apply the transferable skills nurtured to a range of other graduate career pathways.

    
  • Open Days

    Join us at an Open Day

    Our Open Days offer you a fantastic opportunity to get a real taste of university life at Northampton and discover how studying here will be a life-changing experience.

    Each Open Day has a packed programme of subjects talks, advice sessions and activities designed to give you all the information you need about studying at The University of Northampton.

    To find out more about the day, please feel free to have a look at our Open Day Guide.

    
• Requirements

  Standard entry requirements apply. A typical offer would be CCC at A Level or DMM at BTEC. In addition, you will need to have studied a physical education, sports science or science related subject at A Level, BTEC level 3 diploma or equivalent qualification.

  For more information on how to make an application, please visit our How to Apply page.

  If you are an International student and would like information on making an application, please see our How to Apply page.

  English Language Requirements

  All International and EU students applying for a course with us must meet the following minimum English language requirements:

  • IELTS 6.0 (or equivalent) with a minimum of 5.5 in all bands
    for study at undergraduate level.

  For information regarding English language requirements at the University, please see our IELTS page.

   

  Foundation Study Framework Entry Requirements

  Admission to this foundation course is normally DEE at A Level or MPP at BTEC. However, we would also like to hear from you if you have professional or industry experience instead, a range of other qualifications or self-developed subject knowledge that relates to the course that you wish to study.

   

  Contacts

  Course Enquiries

  Application status enquiries
  admissions2020@northampton.ac.uk

  Current student enquiries
  SID@northampton.ac.uk

  International student enquiries
  international@northampton.ac.uk

  Applying for 2020
  Facebook Applicant Group

  Office hours:
  Mon – Thu: 9am – 5pm
  Fri: 9am – 4.30pm

  Phone Call

  0300 303 2772

  +44 (0)1604 892134

  +44 (0)1604 892546

• Course Content
  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Optional Placement Year
  • Year 3

  Students must take the compulsory modules

  • Sport Pedagogy for Coaching (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1011

    Core Module Y
  • Sport and Leisure Management (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1006

    Core Module Y
  • The Social Context of Sport and Exercise (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1038

    Core Module Y
  • How to be successful at University (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1039

    Core Module Y
  • Marketing and Communication (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1044

    Core Module Y
  • Essentials of Sport Business Leadership (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO1045

    Core Module Y

  Students must take the compulsory modules plus two designated modules

  • Sport Research Methods (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2018

    Core Module Y
  • Professional Practice and Entrepreneurialism (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2041

    Core Module Y
  • Digital Sport Marketing (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2051

    Core Module Y
  • Sport Leadership and Team Dynamics (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2052

    Core Module Y
  • Strategic Sport Management (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2043

    Core Module N
  • Positive Psychology Coaching (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2036

    Core Module N
  • Sport, Society and Social Equality (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2044

    Core Module N
  • Designing Successful Events (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2053

    Core Module N

  • Sport Optional Placement Year (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO2050

    Core Module N

  Students must take the compulsory modules plus two designated modules.

  • Dissertation (40 Credits)
    Module code: SPO4001

    Core Module Y
  • Global Sport Business (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3046

    Core Module Y
  • Leading Elite Sports Culture (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3048

    Core Module Y
  • Applied Practice in Sport (WBL) (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3042

    Core Module N
  • Physical Activity and Society (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3043

    Core Module N
  • Equity and Inclusion in Sport Coaching (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3045

    Core Module N
  • Managing Sport Marketing Campaigns (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3047

    Core Module N
  • Event Management in Sport and Leisure (20 Credits)
    Module code: SPO3010

    Core Module N

  • Reading List
    • Chadwick, S., Chanavat, N., and Desbordes, N. (2016) Routledge Handbook of Sports Marketing. Oxon: Routledge.
    • Chadwick, S., Parnell, D., Widdop, P., Anagnostopoulous, C. (2019) Routledge Handbook of Football Business and Management. Oxon: Routledge.
    • Hassan, D. (2018) Foundations of Sport Management: Managing Sport Business. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge.
    • Hoye, R., Smith, A.C.T., Nicholson, M., and Stewart, B. (2018) Sport Management: Principles and Applications. 5th ed. Oxon: Routledge.
    • O’Brien, D., Parent, M.M., Ferkins, L., and Gowthorp, L. (2019) Strategic Management in Sport. Oxon: Routledge.
    • Pedersen, P., and Thibault, L. (2018) Contemporary Sport Management. 6th ed. Europe: Human Kinetics.
    • Seymour, A., and Blakey, P. (2020) Digital Sport Marketing: Concepts, Cases and Conversations. Oxon: Routledge.
    • Smith, A.C.T., and Stewart, B. (2015) Introduction to Sport Marketing. 2nd ed. Oxon: Routledge.

  Facilities &

  Special Features

  There is a strong emphasis on employability with work placement opportunities for students at levels two and three. We have a close partnership with local sports organisations including Northampton Saints, Northampton Town FC and Northants County Cricket Club.

  Sports Zone at Waterside is home to a multi-use sports dome suitable for a variety of sports, including football, badminton and netball. The facilities include two sports performance labs, a pair of teaching rooms and changing rooms. In addition, there also are three outdoor multi-use games areas and floodlit full-size all-weather state-of-the-art sports pitch. The sports dome is used for teaching, research and recreational activities.

• Further Studies
  • Changing Futures Week

    Industry trips and tricks

    Changing Futures is a five-day, University wide showcase of activities and industry speakers to help students explore skills and activities to develop their academic and personal lives.

    
  • Research

    Research at the University of Northampton

    We are committed to delivering outstanding research that makes a difference to society. Our Research Institutes and Centres work closely with external partner organisations, locally, nationally and internationally. We produce internationally renowned and relevant research and disseminate knowledge on an international scale.

    Visit our Research Hub page for more information.

    
  • Opportunities Available

    We are committed to supporting and encouraging business growth and we are involved in a variety of initiatives which seek to benefit the wider community as well as students and staff of the University.

    Discover what businesses we work with and what opportunities may be available to you on our Business and Enterprise pages.

    
• Fees & Funding
  • UK & EU
  • International

  2020/21 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 20/21 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £9,250
  Part Time: £1,450 per 20 credit module
  Foundation Framework: £6,750 as part of a four year programme (subsequent years will be charged at standard BSc rate).

  2019/20 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 19/20 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £9,250
  Part Time: £1,400 per 20 credit module
  Foundation Framework: £6,600 as part of a four year programme (subsequent years will be charged at standard BSc rate).

  Additional costs

  Additional costs will be incurred if you decide to participate in optional field trips/visits as part of your course. The exact cost will depend upon the location chosen for the trip.

  2020/21 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 20/21 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £12,900
  Foundation Framework: £9,800

  2019/20 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 19/20 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £12,500
  Foundation Framework: £9,800

  Additional costs

  Additional costs will be incurred if you decide to participate in optional field trips/visits as part of your course. The exact cost will depend upon the location chosen for the trip.

  Scholarships

  EU and International Scholarships

  We’re committed to offering the opportunity to study in the UK to the best and brightest students from around the world.

  Sir Thomas White Scholarship

  The Sir Thomas White scholarship will support and acknowledge an academically gifted student, with the proviso that the selection panel is confident that there is…

  TD Lewis Scholarship

  The T D Lewis Scholarship provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students with financial awards of up to £1,000.  This scholarship is awarded on educational excellence…

  The Chancellor's Fund

  The Chancellor’s Fund is a bi-annual fund providing students with awards of between £100 and £1,000. You must be a current student to apply.  The…

  Wilson Endowment Scholarship

  The Wilson Endowment Scholarship provides a £1,500 scholarship to undergraduate students from the Northamptonshire area. The endowed scholarship was donated in memory of Mr Lynn Wilson,…

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