CIES
Heather O’Keeffe, FIFA Master | Thinking beyond the pitch to develop women’s football
Heather O’Keefe is a FIFA Master Alumna 2021 and current revenue strategy and planning trainee at FIFA. The following article shines a light on one of the group projects undertaken by O’Keefe and some of her classmates from the 2021 FIFA Master edition.
Alumni Interview, FIFA Master | Rhali Amrani, strategy and analysis director, Qatar 2022
Rhali Amrani completed the FIFA Master in 2012 and took up a role as part of the organising committee behind the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in the first half of the following year
#1 in Europe | The Fifa Master at the International Centre for Sport Studies
The FIFA Master takes top spot in Europe for the 10th year out of the 11 the Postgraduate Rankings have been running.
#1 in Europe | The Fifa Master at the International Centre for Sport Studies
The Fifa Master has been our top-ranked course in Europe for nine out of 10 years.
Matthew Taylor, Fifa Master | Sport during wartime
Matthew Taylor, Professor of History at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, discusses the research behind his book, Sport and the Home Front. Published in 2020, the book was shortlisted for the North American Society of Sports History monograph of the year and the British Society of Sports History Aberdare Prize for best book of the year.
Alumnus profile, Fifa Master | Jair Bertoni, director of member associations, Americas at Fifa
Jair Bertoni completed the Fifa Master in 2005 and afterwards went on to work for the European Professional Football Leagues for almost a decade
Celebrating 10 editions of the SportBusiness Postgraduate Rankings
To mark the milestone of the 10th annual edition of the Postgraduate Rankings, SportBusiness casts an eye back over the evolution of the sports academic sector and speaks to programme directors of the three courses to have topped the list during that time
SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings 2021
Welcome… to the 2021 SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings.
Ohio University reclaims top spot in SportBusiness’ 2020 Postgraduate Rankings
Ohio University’s Master of Sports Administration programme has been named as the world’s best postgraduate sports management degree for 2020 by SportBusiness.
# 3 – The Fifa Master at The International Centre for Sport Studies
The Fifa Master is Europe's best postgraduate sport management degree.
Alumni profile, CIES | Pierre Ducrey, Olympic Games operations director at the IOC
Pierre Ducrey was part of the third intake of students on the CIES Fifa Master, which he graduated with distinction in 2003. He was appointed as Olympic Games operations director in March 2020, having joined the International Olympic Committee as an intern shortly after finishing his Masters degree.
Kevin Tallec Marston, CIES | The sports management higher education sector facing the aftermath of Covid-19
Dr Kevin Tallec Marston, academic coordinator, research fellow and academic project manager for the Fifa Master at the International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES), discusses the challenges and potential opportunities that are facing the sport management education sector, and academia more widely, as the world recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
Partnerships help universities bridge the gap between academia and industry
As the ties between universities and sports organisations grow closer and educational institutes continue to look for new ways to strengthen their connections to industry, SportBusiness takes a look at…
SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings 2019 | #3 – CIES
The Fifa Master at the Switzerland-based International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) placed third in the 2019 rankings, the first non-US course to finish in the top three since winning the rankings itself…
Ohio named world’s best sports management course for 2015
Ohio University’s Master of Sports Administration programme has today been named the best postgraduate sports management course in the world by SportBusiness International for the third time.