BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management Bachelor's degree at Plymouth Marjon University
BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management at PMU. You'll study the business side of sport, covering areas such as marketing, finance, HR, operations, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, supply chain and consulting.
About this course
Learn to succeed in the ever-expanding sport business. Develop the management, business and leadership skills to succeed in sport businesses with BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management. From the provider’s course page.
BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management is a Bachelor's degree (BSc (Hons)) at PMU, based in Main Site. It runs 3 years, studied full-time.
For the typical curriculum, specialisations, career paths and graduate earnings for Business & Management, see the sections below.
Course evidence score
The arithmetic mean of the official measures available for this course: NSS satisfaction, graduate activity and continuation.
Published threshold met Discover Uni suppresses continuation data below its publication threshold. Cohort 2021-23. Continuation 85% (2021-23; Discover Uni snapshot 2026-06-21)
Curriculum & modules
Real modules published for this course, grouped only where the source gives a year, stage or level.
1st Year 6 modules
- Starting Out in Sport Management
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Explore the world of sport management while developing essential study skills, industry knowledge and career awareness through interactive tasks, guided reflection and real-world examples designed to support your personal and professional growth.
- Digital Sport Marketing and Communication in Action
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Explore how sport organisations connect with audiences through marketing and communication. Develop creative ideas, analyse market trends, and learn to present strategies that drive engagement in competitive sport environments.
- Leading in Sport: Foundations of Influence and Change
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Explore what makes great leaders in sport. This module introduces key leadership styles, change management strategies and real-world case studies to develop your confidence, adaptability and decision-making in sport business settings.
- Sport, Society and Social Change
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Explore how sport creates social impact in communities across the world. Examine real-world initiatives, develop leadership and teamwork skills, and learn how sport promotes inclusion, sustainability, and positive change.
- Inside the Sport Industry: Systems, Power and Policy
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Explore how sport is organised and delivered across sectors. Understand key policies, stakeholders and influences shaping the industry. Develop essential skills in communication, analysis and teamwork through applied learning activities.
- Smart Finance: Building Business Skills in Sport
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Explore how finance and accounting shape sport business success. Learn to interpret financial data, manage budgets, and apply practical tools to real-world scenarios in the dynamic sport industry.
2nd Year 6 modules
- Sport Event Design and Delivery
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Gain hands-on experience planning, managing and delivering live sport events. Develop key skills in leadership, communication and teamwork while exploring the wider impact of events on communities and organisations.
- Sport, Justice and Leadership: Law, Equity and Inclusion in Action
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Explore how law, ethics and leadership shape inclusive sport environments. Examine legal frameworks, social justice, and governance while developing skills to lead change and promote equity across the sport industry.
- Sport Finance in Action: Budget, Tools and Strategy
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Explore how financial decisions shape sport organisations. Learn to analyse budgets, interpret financial reports and apply tools that support effective financial planning, strategic thinking and decision-making in sport business.
- Professional Practice and Industry Experience
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Gain real-world experience through a professional placement, applying your knowledge in a live setting while developing key industry skills, reflecting on practice, and building your confidence for future employment.
- Managing People and Teams in Sport
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Explore how effective people and team management drives success in sport business. Develop leadership skills, understand HR strategies, and apply real-world insights to manage performance, culture, and workplace dynamics.
- Building Your Professional Brand
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Develop your professional identity by exploring branding, marketing, and digital presence. This module equips you with the skills to create a personal brand that stands out in the competitive sport industry.
3rd Year 6 modules
- Managing Events: From Concepts to Delivery
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Develop the skills to lead, plan and evaluate real sport and event projects. Gain hands-on experience managing volunteers, coordinating logistics and presenting outcomes to stakeholders in professional and applied settings.
- Sport Marketing and Fan Engagement
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Develop the skills to design impactful marketing strategies for sport organisations. Explore branding, digital campaigns, and audience engagement while applying data insights to real-world challenges in sport business.
- Innovating in Sport: Social Enterprise in Action
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Explore how sport can drive social change by developing your own enterprise project. This module blends innovation, business strategy and real-world application to create impactful solutions in sport communities.
- Insight to Impact: Applied Research in Sport
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Design and deliver an applied research project that tackles real-world challenges in sport. Develop critical thinking, research skills and professional insight while creating meaningful impact in your chosen area.
- Transforming Sport Organisations
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Explore how to lead and manage change in sport organisations through real-world case studies, strategic planning, and leadership models that prepare you to navigate complexity and drive innovation.
- Building Sport Ventures: Enterprise and Strategy
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Develop your entrepreneurial mindset by exploring innovation and enterprise in the sport industry. Design and pitch your own business venture using strategic, financial and creative tools for commercial success.
Source: provider course page. Modules can change; required/optional status, credits, descriptions and assessment are shown only when explicitly published.
Course in depth
What this course covers, who it suits and where it leads.
What you'll study
This course develops the management, business and leadership skills needed to succeed in sport businesses. You'll usually start with foundations in management, marketing and business economics, then progress through operations, organisational behaviour and strategy in your second year. From year three, you'll specialise in areas such as entrepreneurship, international business, digital business, consulting, marketing or people and HR, culminating in a capstone project or consultancy brief that integrates your learning.
Who it's for
This course suits those interested in how sport organisations operate commercially and strategically. You'll need English language proficiency and typically A-levels or equivalent qualifications, 80% of accepted students entered with A-levels or equivalent. Check the university's funding pages for bursaries and scholarships.
Careers & job market
Across Business & Management courses nationally, 87% of graduates are in work or further study within 15 months of graduating, and 60% of working graduates are in highly skilled roles or further study. National earnings data shows starting salaries of £24,000–£32,000 at 15 months; after three years, £21,250–£30,000; and after five years, £26,350–£37,200. These figures reflect the broader graduate labour market rather than guarantees specific to this course.
University & format
Plymouth Marjon University is a university located on its main site. The BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management is a full-time, three-year degree taught in English. It is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and awarded as a nationally recognised UK degree. The university holds Gold for teaching quality in the Office for Students' TEF 2023.
Applicant information
The next application dates for this course, followed by facts the provider publishes.
- 2027 entryCompleted applications can be submitted
Your application needs a reference before you can send it.
- 2026 entryFinal date for 2026 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2026 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
- 2027 entryEqual-consideration deadline
18:00 UK time for most undergraduate courses.
Show 5 later dates
- 2027 entryUCAS Extra opens
Applicants who used all five choices and hold no offer may be able to add another choice.
- 2027 entryLast day applications go directly to providers
Applications received after 18:00 UK time are entered into Clearing.
- 2027 entryClearing opens
Eligible applicants can see vacancies and release themselves into Clearing.
- 2027 entryFinal date for 2027 applications
Applications must reach UCAS by 18:00 UK time.
- 2027 entryLast day to add a Clearing choice
Check that this course still has a vacancy before adding it.
Provider-published requirement; check the linked course page before applying.
Year in industry. Availability, selection and pay can vary.
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Entry & how to get in
Who gets in
What recently admitted students actually held, official admissions data, not a stated requirement.
Qualifications held on entry
| Qualification | Share |
|---|---|
| A-levels or equivalent | 80% |
| an Access course | 10% |
| Other | 10% |
Entry & your chances
An honest read from the official entry data, plus your personal match.
Entry is set by the university and based on your offer. Use your predicted grades to see how you compare, then check the university's stated requirements.
How to apply
Undergraduate applications go through UCAS. Here’s what matters for this course, the right deadline, the grades to aim for, and the steps in order.
- 1Register on UCAS Hub
Create your UCAS application and add this course (code SBM1). One application covers up to five choices.
- 2Write your personal statement
A single statement covers all your choices, so keep it broad enough for similar courses while showing genuine interest in this subject.
- 3Submit by 13 January 2027, 18:00 UK time
UCAS equal-consideration deadline for most undergraduate courses. Source: UCAS 2027 dates.
- 4Reply to your offers
When decisions are in, pick a firm (first) choice and an insurance (back-up) choice with slightly lower grades.
- 5Results day & confirmation
On results day (mid-August) your place is confirmed if you meet the offer. Just missed? Talk to the university, or find a place through Clearing.
Fees & funding
What this course costs and how UK student finance covers it.
Tuition per year
Standard capped home fee at English providers (2026/27); Scotland, Wales & NI differ.
Check fees at PMU →For students who normally live in England
2026/27 Student Finance England figures. Maintenance support is means-tested and this two-point view is not an entitlement calculator. The course total uses its published length and home fee where both are available; a missing full-time fee uses the clearly labelled England-cap scenario, while part-time fees and unknown lengths are never guessed. Use the official calculator. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use separate systems: SAAS, Student Finance Wales, and Student Finance NI.
Starting on or after 1 January 2027?
The Lifelong Learning Entitlement is a separate system. A new learner’s tuition entitlement is currently stated as £39,160 (about 480 credits at 2026/27 fee levels), subject to prior study and eligibility. Check the official LLE guide.
Paying for it
- Tuition Fee Loan: can cover eligible tuition up to the applicable limit and is paid straight to the provider.
- Maintenance Loan: up to £10,830/yr away from home outside London (England, 2026/27), means-tested on household income.
- Repayment: 9% of income above £25,000, nothing below it; written off after 40 years.
- Earn alongside: most students work part-time in term, part-time roles on the StudySmarter job board.
England figures shown; Scotland, Wales & NI run their own schemes, check gov.uk.
Scholarships & bursaries you could qualify for
That does not mean no funding exists. Check the university directory for current amounts, eligibility and application dates.
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Careers & earnings
What Business & Management graduates actually earn, from real outcome data, 15 months, 3 years and 5 years after graduating.
Graduate outcomes, 15 months on: this course
- 1Graduate / AnalystOn a scheme or first role · 0–2 yrs
- 2Specialist / ManagerOwning an area, marketing, finance, ops · 2–5 yrs
- 3Senior / Head ofLeading a function and a team · 5–10 yrs
- 4Director / FounderRunning a business unit or your own company · 10+ yrs
How pay grows: this course vs Business & Management nationally
National figures for Business & Management graduates, HESA Graduate Outcomes (15 months) and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset (3 & 5 years). These are national, not university-specific; actual pay varies by employer, region, role and experience. Different cohorts, so the bars are not one group over time.
Work out your pay
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What happened to 100 students?
Choose an outcome to translate the published percentage into a simple 100-person view. Each dot represents one percentage point, not an individual tracked student.
continued or completed
continued into the next year or completed their qualification
Source: Discover Uni, using Graduate Outcomes and continuation data. Cohorts: 2021-23. Published threshold met. Sample size is not included in this snapshot. Each tab is a separate published measure; categories can overlap and should not be added together.
Job market & outlook
How Business & Management graduates fare in the labour market, and how AI is reshaping the work.
How AI is changing the work
AI doesn't replace the profession, it shifts it: routine tasks get automated, while judgement, working with people and using AI well become more valuable.
What AI takes off your plate
- Routine reporting and data pulls
- First-draft decks and copy
- Standard forecasts and reconciliations
- Scheduling and admin workflows
More human than ever
- Strategy and judgement under uncertainty
- Leading, negotiating and selling
- Sense-checking and owning what AI produces
- Relationships with clients and teams
The strongest graduates pair subject depth with the ability to use AI tools critically.
Roles & employers
Where Business & Management graduates typically go, indicative destinations from graduate career data. Each role links to live openings on the StudySmarter job board.
Roles graduates go into
Where they work
- Consultancies
- Corporate graduate schemes
- Retail & FMCG
- Startups & scale-ups
Jobs after this course
Current roles from the StudySmarter job board that suit Business & Management graduates.
Business Director, Marketing ScienceXcedeBusiness ManagerLGPS CentralBusiness Change ManagerIGA Talent SolutionsBusiness Case ManagerPeregrineBusiness DirectorMedialab GroupBusiness Rates SurveyorW TalentIs this course right for you?
The essentials UK applicants ask about: finance, outcomes, entry and quality.
Student finance
For comparison, the standard full-time England tuition cap is up to £9,790 per year in 2026/27; the actual fee varies by course and provider. If you normally live in England, eligible students can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan, plus a Maintenance Loan for living costs. Under Plan 5 you repay 9% of income above £25,000, nothing below that, and the balance is written off after 40 years.
Official-data snapshot
Averaging the official measures published for it, this course scores 8.5 out of 10: continued 85%.
Who studies here and in this subject?
Provider- and UK subject-level context.
University of St Mark and St John
Business and management across the UK
HESA student record 2024/25. Counts are rounded.
Local crime-data context
A neutral snapshot around the published teaching location.
Around Main Site
400 street-level reports returned within roughly one mile across 2026-04 to 2026-06.
Police.uk street-level API. Approximate locations, not confined to campus. England, Wales and Northern Ireland; not Scotland.
Is Business & Management right for you?
Tick what applies to you and see how good a fit it is.
International students
What applying to PMU from outside the UK involves: fees, English, visa, funding and living costs.
Tuition fees
International tuition is set per course by PMU; international fees are typically £12,000–£30,000/year for classroom subjects and higher for lab/clinical ones. You’re not eligible for UK Tuition Fee or Maintenance Loans, so plan for fees plus living costs upfront.
English language
Most UK undergraduate courses ask for around IELTS 6.0–6.5 (no band below 5.5–6.0), or an accepted equivalent. If you’re just short, most universities run a pre-sessional English course that counts towards the requirement.
Student visa
You’ll usually need a Student visa (Student Route). After you accept an offer the university issues a CAS; you then show funds for fees plus about £1,023–£1,334/month living costs and pay the Immigration Health Surcharge for NHS access.
Scholarships & funding
Many universities offer international/global scholarships (often £2,000–£6,000/yr), check PMU’s funding pages.
Living costs
Budget roughly £1,100–£1,400/month outside London and £1,400–£1,800/month in London for rent, food and travel; the figure also matters for your visa.
Working while you study
A Student visa usually allows up to 20 hours/week in term time and full-time in holidays, useful alongside study, though not something to rely on for fees.
Visa rules and fees change. Always confirm the current requirements with PMU and gov.uk before you apply.
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