BA (Hons) Sports Business and Management

You’ll be enrolled as a student at the University of South Wales and have access to a number of learning materials. Your weekly learning hours will be between 6 and 18 depending on the year of study and time of year, with online lectures facilitated within your club’s learning environment. There may also be live tutorials and seminars with USW staff.

Residential Study Visits are hugely popular with students on similar degrees, and you’ll attend up to 3 per year. These visits will be based across our suite of University of South Wales Pontypridd Campus’ including our High-Performance Centre USW Sport Park, whilst receiving fully funded accommodation during these teaching blocks.

You’ll have access to an online library, blackboard and other learning materials, and will spend time at the University of South Wales to complete practical teaching. You’ll complete work-based learning that is supported by your Club Mentor and managed through tutorials and a mentoring programme. The work-based learning programme can be completed within your own club’s projects or with their partners or sponsors.

You will also have the opportunity to complete additional qualifications within your organisation that are suited to your own development and career ambitions.

You’ll be assessed via a range of methods to ensure you develop a range of different skills. Approximately 80% of the assessment methods are coursework orientated

Assessment methods include written essays and reports, presentations, practical sports management and leadership assessments, work-based learning assessments, posters and leaflets, reflective blogs, team debates, exams (multiple choice and essay style).

This course is delivered in partnership with the English Football League Trust.

You’ll have support in gaining regular placement opportunities, provided by your Club Mentor and an opportunity to reflect upon your development through termly meetings with an Academic Development Officer. These Officers are employed by the English Football League Trust but are there to support our student’s development.

The vast majority of your learning on this degree will be based at your own club’s learning environment and the facilities at these will vary. Many clubs have their own specific facilities based in their communities, but many of them also deliver the learning at the club’s stadium.

When on Residential Study Visits during the course you may be based at USW Sport Park. This specially designed sporting performance facility focuses on rugby and football coaching. It includes a specialist centre for strength and conditioning with 12 lifting platforms, providing a high-performance environment for aspiring athletes. Our full-size indoor 3G pitch is built to the Fifa Pro standard and World Rugby 22 standard. It will guarantee training all year round for our rugby, football and coaching students. We are the only university in England and Wales to offer this facility.

The USW Sports Coaching and Development team are experienced staff all of whom have worked in the sports coaching and/or development industry, some of whom have even played and coached at a professional/elite level. Our staff have experience of coordinating and managing sport in both local authorities, sports clubs and national governing bodies of sport, and are able to bring this real-life knowledge and experience into the classroom to bring topics to life. Many of our staff are still active in the industry either coaching or representing sports organisations on boards and strategic groups.

You’ll be supported by termly meetings with an Academic Development Officer, who are employed by the English Football League Trust, but there to support our student’s development. These Officers would be an extra level of pastoral and academic support, in addition to the support of your Club Mentor, Course and Module Leaders.