With the ‘ MBA sports management’ graduates to responsible, strategic and operational management tasks in the sports business are prepared. For the winter semester 2009/2010 University of applied sciences Schmalkalden in collaboration with the IST-Studieninstitut offers for the first time the in-service degree sport management (MBA) “on.” This 5-semester MBA program is based on the professional practice of the industry and has been designed as a distance learning with integrated presence phases that work and study can be perfectly compatible. Among the first students, a scholarship is also awarded by the IST-Studieninstitut! Content of the General management to be taught in the first two semesters. In the third and fourth semesters is the specialization in the field of sports management. Individual majors are E.g.
Association – Association Management, sports facility planning and financing or even sports marketing and sponsorship. The curriculum of this MBA program is characterized by a consistent focus on the requirements of the practice. So expand the participants in the program through practical projects, project work, case studies and attendance phases, as well as the to pass in the fifth semester Master thesis, their competences in the area of analytical skills and strategic problem solving. At the first start of this new, high-quality MBA programme there is a special highlight: under all applicants and applicants that their enrollment documents for the MBA course have submitted the 01 of July, will be awarded a full scholarship from the IST-Studieninstitut! A variety of sports or sports-economic courses in the College landscape has emerged in the past 15 years. With the first MBA program in sports management in Germany, University of applied sciences Schmalkalden offers the possibility to specialize or to position themselves better in the labour market the numerous graduates and graduates of this degree.
Also graduates and graduates of other disciplines can qualify through to the in-service distance education for leadership positions in the sports business. The students benefit from the competence network between University of applied sciences Schmalkalden innovative representative of the science and the IST-Studieninstitut as a renowned provider of certified distance learning courses in the field of sport & management”.