Full Time MBA Football Industries
MBA
In Liverpool
Description
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Type
MBA
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Location
Liverpool
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Duration
1 Year
Provides students with a good grounding in the modern football business, encourages them to understand theoretical debates around its functioning, and to analyse critically processes and forces within it. Its aim is to encourage programme graduates to apply modern business and management concepts, theories, and practice to the football industry. . Suitable for: This programme offers a comprehensive and high level education to managers who are interested in opening up new career opportunities or supporting their development in football and associated industries.
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About this course
Students will be expected to hold a 2:i Honours degree (which may be in any discipline) or equivalent qualification
Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience or equivalent
This requirement may be waived for applicants who are able to demonstrate high levels of academic achievement, motivation and maturity.
IELTS 6.5 or equivalent
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Subjects
- Change Management
- Management
- Master Business Administration
- Business and Management
- Marketing
- Football
- Admninistration
- Finance
- Law
- Industry
- Full Time
- People Management
- Media
Course programme
The MBA Football Industries was the first MBA qualification in the world to focus upon the rapidly expanding world wide interest in the professionalisation, business, and marketing of football. The programme combines professional development in the field of the football industries with a critical awareness of the issues involved in football management, marketing, and administration.
The Key features of the programme include, first, a comprehensive programme of guest lectures from key practitioners in areas of the management of the football industries, including the professional associations, football clubs, financial analysts and the media and, second, the opportunity to undertake placement based dissertation research in an organisation operating in the football industries.
There are three principal objectives to the programme:
- To introduce students to the modern football business, encourage them to understand theoretical debates around its functioning, and critically analyse processes and forces within it.
- To introduce students to generic management study, and encourage them to apply industry and business concepts to modern football.
- To offer vocational training to students who wish to enter the football industry and peripheral industries, and to develop the skills and attributes required to successfully enter the industry.
- A good understanding of core management theory
- A good understanding of past and current trends in the football business
- An enhanced ability to work individually and in small groups to research and propose solutions for problems
- An enhanced ability to write analytically yet concisely
- Managing Resources
- Managing the Environment
- Managing People
- International Business of Football
- Managing Change
- Football and the Law
- Football and Finance
- Dissertation
Many MBA Football Industries graduates now work in commercial and marketing roles in football clubs, associations, and specialist sports marketing firms. Other career opportunities lie in consultancy, media companies, agencies, corporate communications, human resources management, and freelance work.
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Full Time MBA Football Industries