Master in Sports Management

The Master in Sports Management is ranked number 11 in the world Top 50 in Sports Management by the EdUniversal ranking. The master's degree will provide you with a transversal vision of the sports sector so that you can specialize in the most demanded areas within a constantly growing and changing market.

The Master in Sports Management is the training you need to make the leap and work on your true passion: sport. The quality of its content is adapted to current trends, which will allow you to manage any department in clubs, federations, local companies or multinational sports. With this face-to-face master's degree, you will be able to successfully direct and manage any entity, institution or sports company. You will be able to choose optional subjects that best suit your profile and adapt the training to your interests and the profession you want to dedicate yourself to.

With a program of visits to centers and institutions of reference in the sports sector, you will learn first-hand what the management of a sports company is like. It also offers you the opportunity to generate networking with a wide variety of students from diverse geographical and academic backgrounds, as well as all the professionals in the sports field that you will find in the classroom.

The professors of the master's degree, active professionals in the sports industry, know first-hand its peculiarities, they will help you develop your professional profile in sports organizations to manage sports companies and institutions and understand the sports sector market. The Master in Sports Management will train you to be autonomous in making decisions in an organization and to have a transversal vision of any sports multinational.

Considered by EDUNIVERSAL the best master's degree in sports management at a national level, its contents are highly adapted to the constant changes that sport experiences in our society and how companies face them. Therefore, you will be able to specialize, according to your professional aspirations, in sports marketing, sporting events, business management or technological innovations in sports.

The Master in Sports Management has the endorsement of Pompeu Fabra University , the 1st Spanish university and 15th best university in the world (of those with less than 50 years of history), according to the Times Higher Education ranking. In turn, the UPF Barcelona School of Management has the EQUIS accreditation , the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally.

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Why choose this program

01 Access a quality study plan

The face-to-face master's degree is an avant-garde program, but at the same time consolidated and of value to students, both academically and professionally, and has trained students from more than 20 countries in its 15 editions. For this reason, it is considered the best Master in Sports Management nationwide by the Eduniversal ranking.

02 Learn from specialist teachers

You will regularly have interventions in the classroom by prominent personalities from the world of sports management that will provide you with a current vision of trends in the sports industry.

03 From the general to the particular

You will start from general knowledge of sports management to more specific concepts (marketing, technology and business) according to your professional aspirations in the sports industry.

04 Practical cases

Through the analysis and resolution of practical cases you will face real situations that have occurred in the sports sector.

05 Do extracurricular practices

With the Master in Sports Management you will have the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the classroom in companies in the sports industry of any kind, as well as in sporting events, sports companies or sports law.

06 Visits to companies and sports facilities

Throughout the course you will make visits to companies and sports facilities to see in a practical and real way how many of the contents of the program are applied in the day-to-day life of a sports entity.

UPF-BSM is the management school of Pompeu Fabra University, a university internationally recognized for its level of excellence in teaching and research.

Our purpose is to contribute to the development of management and to people who put it into practice. We train professionals who are capable of managing companies and institutions and leading projects with a global vision. People who seek to add value , innovate and transform society through a commitment to culture and global wellness.

Why should you choose us?

We connect the university with business through innovation, social transformation, and research. Our management vision is strategic, it is based on international best practices and it is focused on people.

We propose solutions to the challenges faced by the business, social and institutional environment with the vocation of transferring results to society. We want to generate knowledge and economic and social impact.

We offer an active, personalized, and interdisciplinary learning model that prepares students to become professionals capable of moving in constantly changing environments.

We have a values-based culture such as ethics, social responsibility, transparency, rigor, sustainability, diversity, humanism, and culture. We have a creative and transformative vision with a vocation for excellence in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer.

A business school connected to the world

The interest of new management in challenges related to global welfare requires approaching education from an international perspective.

An international vocation with a global vision of challenges of the future

We understand internationalization as a transversal project that permeates all areas and activities of our school. Its objective is to provide the content with a broad and universal vision that can be shared by teachers, management, and students from around the world.

In addition, at UPF-BSM, as an extension of UPF, we obtained wide international recognition for the excellence of our work in teaching and research.

The international ambition to provide solutions with a global impact

We promote the mobility of our students and professors with the aim of fostering the creation of international networks and alliances with reference actors, developing joint experiences. These alliances allow us to be an active part of the world and to fulfill our international ambition to provide solutions with global impact.