Sports and Recreation Management

A major and minor are offered in Sports and Recreation Management. 

Franklin Pierce University is one of a handful of schools that house the Sports and Recreation Management program within the Division of Business Administration. This reflects Franklin Pierce's intent to equip students to become leaders and managers within the industry, not coaches and teachers. Students majoring or minoring in Sports and Recreation Management take a series of six required courses along with three additional courses chosen from one of two tracks: Professional Sports Management or Recreation Management. 

Guest lecturers frequently are invited into the classroom to teach the actual methodologies utilized in the industry of sports and leisure. Each semester, trips are taken to various facilities, such as the Fleet Center, Foxboro Stadium, Fenway Park, Keene Recreation, Hampshire Hills Health and Racquet Club and a Norwegian Cruise Ship, docked at the Boston Harbor, to again, blend classroom instruction with real operations.

"Lou" Gorman, past Boston Red Sox's General Manager, has been teaching and leading our Professional track by forming a Sports Management Advisory Board. Organizations that are a part of the board include: Fleet Center, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, New Hampshire Speed Way, Swamp Bats, and law firms that represent players (sports agents). The Board is on campus at least once per semester to share ideas with the students and help to guide our curriculum toward the development of productive candidates in the field.

The Career Planning and Placement office highly supports the Sports and Recreation Management major sharing ideas with the students within the classroom setting as well as in a one-on-one situation in the office. The placement office contains a library, which includes volumes of up-to-date sites for internships, in addition to job and career possibilities.

Want to Know More?

View the College at Rindge academic catalog for specific degree requirements and course information.

Contact

Franklin Pierce University
College at Rindge 
1.800.437.0048
admissions@franklinpierce.edu

FACULTY

Keith Detjen
Visiting Instructor, Sports Management
B.S., M.B.A., Southern New Hampshire University
detjenk@franklinpierce.edu