The 2024 edition of SportBusiness’ Postgraduate Rankings is out now, with a new-look interactive rankings table and more.
In the new dedicated website you will find a complete interactive rankings table, overviews of each of the top programmes globally, informative articles for students to help them make decisions and choose a course that best suits their needs and ambitions, and more information on sports management programmes from around the world.
The top-ranked courses in 2024
The University of Massachusetts Amherst MBA/MS Sport Management and MS Sport Management course has been named as the world’s best postgraduate sports management programme in the 13th edition of the SportBusiness Postgraduate Rankings.
UMass Amherst maintains its top position in the global rankings for the third consecutive year.
The second-placed programme was the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Masters in Sport Administration, building on its strong record in the Postgraduate Rankings and moving up one place from third place in 2023.
The global top three position is held by Ohio University. Its dual MBA/MSA programme, maintains Ohio’s position as one of the top three sport management courses in every edition of the rankings, with first place finishes in 2020 and 2021.
The top three courses in Europe comprised CIES’s Fifa Master – International Master in Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia & University of San Marino’s MasterSport – Master in Management dello Sport System, and Johan Cruyff Institute’s Master in Sport Management – Online.
About the Postgraduate Course Rankings
The SportBusiness Postgraduate Rankings are generated based on two surveys, one completed by alumni who graduated three years ago, and the other by the academic leaders of the courses. This ranking is the only one in the world exclusively focused on postgraduate education in sport management.
The rankings were founded in 2012, providing potential postgraduate students with a reliable and comprehensive measure of the quality of the postgraduate courses available to them.