Education

Italy's masterSport completes the European podium, as well as claiming the Graduates' Choice award.

Marco Brunelli is the founder and director of the MasterSport International Master’s in Strategic Management of Sports Organisations, Events and Facilities, which is based in the Universities of San Marino and Parma. Here, he presents an extract from an article on the underdevelopment of Italian stadium infrastructure and its impact on the wider sports landscape in the country.

Paolo Arsillo attended the MasterSport international master’s in strategic management of sports organisations, events and facilities in 2003, and joined the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) the following y…

The Josoor Institute was established in 2013 as the educational arm of Qatar’s World Cup 2022 organising committee, with a goal of securing a long-term dividend from that event by significantly boosting the country’s capacity to host major events. SportBusiness spoke with major stakeholders to discuss how it is working to secure that legacy, and their ambitions for Josoor’s future.

Last year, SportBusiness spoke with Columbia University’s Scott Rosner and Brunel University London’s Vassil Girginov about how the first few months of the Covid-19 outbreak had affected campus life. This year, we checked in with them again to find out about the effects of an entire year under the pandemic, and how they assess its likely long-term impact.

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

Loughborough University has entered the SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings for the first time. Dr Peter Dickenson, part of the MSc Sport Management programme, explains why the university has made sport one of its ‘strategic pillars’, and how its Loughborough-based programme reaps the benefits of its campus environment, where sport is all around.

Welcome… to the 2021 SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings.

The Master of Sports Administration degree at Ohio University tops our list for the eighth time in ten years.

Sporjo, an India-based online service providing education and training aimed at budding and established sports industry professionals, has raised $2m (€1.7m) in a pre-Series A funding round.

Major League Soccer has announced a multiyear partnership with the University of South Carolina, which has been designated an official education partner of MLS

Entries are now open for the 2021 edition of the SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings, the world's leading survey of the best degrees in sport management and administration

Arsene Wenger, Fifa's chief of global football development, suggested hosting the World Cup and European Championships every two years and compressing qualifiers into a smaller number of windows - Reuters

The International Ski Federation is confident that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will power growth in skiing in China, despite a lack of home-grown stars. Tom King reports.

Fifa is offering Visa credit card holders in Qatar access to a special presale of Club World Cup tickets, for the competition that starts on February 4

AISTS is proud to launch 2 new programs in India beginning 1st March 2021. This program aims to increase sport awareness and develop Indian students to work in the local and international sport industry