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Sport Management B.S.

School of Business

Competency and Virtue

Crown’s business degree with a focus on Sport Management, provides a solid foundation for students aspiring to blend their passion for athletics with earned knowledge in applied settings.

With a Sport Management degree, students should leave this program with a unique set of skills, knowledge, and experience that allow them to be competitive in the highly competitive sport industry and transferable to other areas God has called them to.

Why study Sport Management at Crown?

Smaller Class Sizes

You'll receive personal mentoring, and faculty will really get to know you! Gain customized internship and job placement assistance before and after graduation.

Mentorship Opportunities

Bringing in external real-world business leaders and experts into our students’ learning experience, while also initiating sophisticated mentorship, internship, and post-graduation job opportunities.

Experienced Faculty

Our business faculty have an average of 25+ years of business experience to complement their teaching experience. This gives our faculty invaluable, real-world perspective to share with our students from their time with Big 4 accounting firms, Fortune 500 corporations, small businesses, and entrepreneurial start-ups.

Sport Management

I have the opportunity to not just be in a caring community, but a community that fosters the same values and faith. There are so many different perspectives here from students and professors, and it creates so many opportunities to grow.

Being at Crown makes you want to stay at Crown for the rest of your life; but being at Crown also gets you excited for what God is preparing you to do after college, too.

Nora Xiong

Careers

Athletic Director
Sales Coordinator
Director of Operations

Preparation for Advanced Degrees

Meet the Dean

Meet the Faculty

Bill Bojan

Dean of the Business School

Kendall Qualls

Faculty in Residence, School of Business

Tyler Hajek

Assistant Professor of Business + Sport Management

Preview of Courses

SMG 350 - Sport Marketing

This course provides an overview of principles in sport marketing. Considerations in critical areas and steps of preliminary market research and market segmentation will be discussed. Students can expect to gain experience in marketing plan development and implementation.

SMG 333 - Ethics in Sport

Contemporary issues in sport management are discussed in a seminar-styled format. Students are expected to lead and facilitate conversations with current, relevant events in the sport industry. Biblical perspectives, case studies, trends, and forecasting comprise the discussions.

SMG 421 - Law and Governance in Sport

This course reviews vital information for legal and governing considerations in the sport industry. Topics in this course cover employment law, liability, ethics, and safety from managerial and operational perspectives.

FAQs

Our faculty to student ratio is 17:1. We intentionally aim to keep our class sizes small. This allows us to maintain academic excellence and strong relationships between faculty and students. At Crown College, every student is a person and not just another number.
We generally accept credits from accredited institutions as long as the student maintained a C or higher in the course. To see a full list of what classes will transfer, you can visit Transferology or contact our registrar office at registrar@crown.edu.
Available to all students, our Student Success Office is a great resource for students. Services offered by the Student Success Office are designed to increase academic success and build community. Amanda McDonald serves as our Director of Student Success and is more than happy to meet with any student. For more information, click here.
Yes we have an honors program! For more information on our Honors program click here.
Crown College offers a wide-range of scholarships to every student. 100% of students receive some type of financial aid. For more information about financial aid, click here.
At Crown College, every class is taught from a Biblical worldview. Our faculty are all followers of Christ and are comfortable incorporating Christian principles into their curriculum. For more information on other ways Crown College equips students spiritually outside of the classroom, click here.

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