What is the difference between sports management and sports administration?

Answer 1

Sports management is when people participate in the business side of sports. While sports marketing is also about the business side of sports, it focuses primarily on marketing or promoting a specific team.

Answer 2

Gonzaga's programs are quite different. The Sport Management major is only for a Bachelor in Education. I'm not sure why they'd teach this through the education school, but I guess this would be fitting for aspiring athletic directors?

The Sport Administration is actually a major for a Master degree.

But that's Gonzaga.

As for different schools calling majors different things, I don't think that there is much difference. In my home state, GA Tech offers a "Management" degree with various concentrations. GA State offers a Bachelor of Business "Administration" with separate majors. The terminology of the majors and degrees are different like your "administration" vs. "management," but the course requirements are about 95% the same.

So if you need to compare two bachelor programs at two separate schools, you can probably click through their websites and find the course requirements for each and compare them.

Answer 3

there really isn't any (fundamental) difference other than the name.

Answer 4

The difference between a sport's agent and a sport's manager is the agent normally manages one person and a sport's manager manages the whole team.