The Role of Sports Economics in the Sport Management Curriculum

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Table 3 summarizes the data on the departments that are host to sport management programs. The categories of department titles shown on Table 3 have been summarized to some extent. For example, the category Health/PhysEd/Human Performance includes departments with names containing two or more of the listed terms. Based on their names, these apepar to by hybrid departments that are composed of faculty from two or more disciplines. Examples include Department of Health and Physical Education, Department of Human Performance and Health Promotion, and Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The category Sport/Exercise Science includes departments wither either “Sport Science” or “Exercise Science” in their names. The category Kinesiology includes all departments with “Kinesiology” in their name. These departments may be very similar, but without a detailed examination of the faculty I was unable to determine how similar they might be. The category No Departmental Affiliation includes all sport management degree programs that were not directly affiliated with an academic department. less than 10% of the sport management undergraduate degrees in this sample are offered by departments of sport management or sport administration, so it appears that most sport management degrees are offered by some other department. Instead, many sport management degrees are offered by departments related to health, physical education, and human performance. The total degree offerings from five similar categories of departments – Health/PhysEd/Human Performance Kinesiology, Sport/Exercise Science, PhysEd and Health/Sport categories – accounts for over 46% of the departments awarding undergraduate sport management degrees. I found it somewhat surprising that such a large fraction of sport management degrees – almost 20% – are offered in departments of business or management because I do not personally know of very many sport management programs located in business schools. A similar picture emerges in the distribution of departments granting masters degrees in sport management, shown on Table 4. Like undergraduate degrees, a minority of masters degrees are awarded by departments of sport management or sport administration. Over 50% of masters degrees in sport management are awarded by departments that, based on 8
Table 3: Departments Offering Undergraduate Sport Management Degrees Department Name Number Percent of Total Health/PhysEd/Human Performance 23 16.08 No Departmental Affiliation 22 15.38 Business/Management 19 13.29 Sport/Exercise Science 19 13.29 Sport Management/Administration 13 9.09 Kinesiology 10 6.99 Parks, Recreation 10 6.99 Leisure/Sport Studies 8 5.59 PhysEd 8 5.59 Health/Sport 5 3.50 Education 4 2.80 Hospitality/Tourism 2 1.40 their name, specialize in lab sciences like Kinesiology, Health and Human Performance, and Exercise Science. Note that, unlike the case in undergraduate degrees, very few masters degrees in sport management are awarded by departments of business or management. This probably re- flects the dominance of the masters in business administration degree in business school departments. Another way to understand the production of sport management degrees is to look at the colleges and schools that are home to the departments that award sport management degrees. Table 5 summarizes this information for the undergraduate degree granting departments in the sample. On Table 5, NA refers to departments that are not affiliated with a larger college or school. These departments are generally at smaller institutions, like liberal arts colleges, that consist of a single college and make up a large fraction of the undergraduate 9
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