Drive positive change in the sports industry
Master of Sports Leadership
Designed in collaboration with Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, the Master of Sports Leadership program will give you an understanding of the concepts necessary to run functional areas of a sports organization or team, including marketing, finance, athletic administration, and corporate sponsorships. This program will empower you to responsibly and successfully utilize sports to foster diversity, prevent violence, and improve the health of local and global communities.
In this program, you'll have the opportunity to:
- Complete your degree 100% online with a curriculum that is accredited by the Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA)—which provides the only discipline-specific accreditation in sport management.
- Access our extensive alumni network of more than 560 sports professionals who work at industry-leading organizations including the Boston Bruins, Boston Red Sox, Carolina Panthers, Canadian Olympic Committee, Major League Soccer, and numerous athletic departments at universities, colleges, and high schools across the U.S.
- Participate in the intensive one-week Summer Institute in Boston, an integral educational experience that enables students to network and cultivate lifelong relationships with industry leaders, peers, and alumni.
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"Courses within sports leadership examine the business and social issues that are critical to effective sports leadership. It gives you the chance to assess and refine your leadership abilities so you can inspire, develop, and motivate people. Perhaps, more importantly, you can understand how to develop and lead teams by fostering the appropriate culture and positively effecting change.”
—Dr. Robert Prior, Faculty Lead for the Master of Sports Leadership
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.