Best Sports Management Programs

marny1
Sun, 13 May 2012 19:38:37 +0000

Hi Penguin- I don’t come on these boards too much anymore, but I saw your posting. My d graduated from Cortland in 2010 and is now working for a sport/event marketing firm. I think cortland played a big role as it gave her the oppotunity to do a number of different internships, and she was able to use those experience to get her first job working for a minor leage baseball team.

1. i am a firm believer that you need to find a program that has an emphasis in business, so your kid will have a strong business background too.

2. As cortland is close to syracuse, there is alot of opportunity for internships (see post #60 from Genevive-). You can also re- read my posts (#5-17-40 and 98) as the stuff I said then, still holds true.
U Mass is a great program. I’m sure U Mich (which is combined business program - see post #106) would be a great way to go too. But for my d, both U Mass and U Mich would have been expensive, and she never would have been admitted with her stats to U Mich.
As NYS residents, SUNY cortland made the most sense financially.
She really enjoyed her time at Cortland- it is a very nice and friendly campus. It has become much more popular with our Long Island HS over the past few years. It is also the summer training camp of the NY Jets, so it is interesting to be there in the summer. And they do use a bunch of cortland kids to intern for the jets. They are definitely going to be there this summer, with the hope of renewing the contract for another two years, but nothing is written in stone past the summer of 2012.
Hope I was helpful. (sorry this sound disjointer- but I’m listening to tv as I am typing along)

and blovelND- U ARE CORRECT- BIG RIVALRY BETWEEN ITHACA (oops caps) and cortland. There is the cortiga jug football game every year! Ithaca is also a very solid program, but for most NYS residents, cortland is a heck of alot cheaper. And cost was a factor in our decision. Honestly, I don’t know if my d would have been served any better at ithaca than cortland. They are both solid sport management schools with good reputations.