Sports ManagementCertificate

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Advance your career in sports

Earn your sports management certificate and get the skills necessary to advance your career. Here, you'll learn leadership and management skills and legal aspects of athletics. In this certificate program, you'll expand on the skills you learned in your undergraduate studies.

Plus, a certificate program allows you to acquire the knowledge and skills you desire without the commitment of a full MBA program.

What you'll learn in this certificate program

  • Leadership and management of organizations
  • Issues of collegiate and professional sports
  • Management of the sports business

The College of Business and Management at Lynn University is accredited by IACBE

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At Lynn, there's counseling and tutoring. I know someone is always there for me.
Rafaela Emiliana Da Fonseca '19, Brazil, B.S. in sports management

Courses

Browse the curriculum, course descriptions and requirements for the Sports Management program.

Career opportunities

This sports management certificate program can help take your career to the next level. See where you can go or further your career by earning an MBA in sports management.

Fitness manager

Fitness managers are responsible for an entire fitness club or center for a cooperation, hotel or educational institution. They supervise staff, manage records and budgets, maintain equipment, promote business and develop fitness programs to maintain customer satisfaction and boost profits.

Team coach or trainer

Team coaches or trainers mentor a team of athletes in their respective sport and provide them with a training regimen and guidance that will help athetles perform to the best of their ability.

Player development scout

Scouts help further the development of a sports program by finding athletes that have potential and studying player performance. They coordinate with scouting prospects and their families and discuss the oppurtunites of being recruited to the team.

Athletic director

Athletic directors are the general managers of sports programs at high schools and universities. They direct the entire coaching/training staff and manage facilities, transportation and major sporting events happening within their program or school.

Career preparation services

We empower students to utilize all the career preparation resources to find the job they’ve always dreamed of.

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Cost and aid

Estimated cost of attendance

Fee name2023-2024
Tuition$750 per credit
Fees$200
Total$9,200

Costs are based on completion of 12 total credits.

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Attending Lynn can be more reasonable than you may think. Explore financial aid opportunities and see how much you can save.

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Graduate Application deadlines

Fall Semester
InternationalJuly 24
DomesticAug. 7
Spring Semester
InternationalDec. 12
DomesticDec. 26
Summer Semester
InternationalApril 10
DomesticApril 24

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