- Level
- Master Degree
- Duration
- 12 Months
- Open intake
-
Off-shoreSep 2027
- Field
- Business, Commerce, and Management
- Institution
- Public University
- Offer speed
- Superfast Offer Speed2–3 days
- Next deadline
- 2026-09-01
Program overview
This is one of the most distinctive courses in DMU’s portfolio: the MA Management, Law and Humanities of Sport, run from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture, which has long-standing links with FIFA’s international master programme network. Rather than sports science, it studies sport as an institution — its governance and management, its legal disputes (doping, transfers, integrity, athlete rights), and its history and cultural weight.
The teaching brings together management case studies of clubs and federations, sports law problem work built on CAS jurisprudence, and humanities seminars on how sport shapes national identity and commerce. The CSV export records the highest English profile in the business cluster — IELTS 7.0 overall with 5.5 band minimums — which this sheet maps to a newly inserted lookup profile, and the fee, at £14,600, undercuts most of the faculty’s other master’s degrees.
Delivery involves an international teaching faculty drawn through the centre’s federation links, and cohorts are deliberately small and globally mixed — recent classes have combined lawyers, journalists, former athletes and administrators, which turns seminar discussion into exactly the cross-border networking the sport industry runs on. At £14,600 it is also the least expensive master’s in this entire batch.
Career candour is essential here: paid roles in sports governance are few, concentrated in London, Lausanne and federation capitals, and frequently filled through the course’s own alumni network, so treat networking as coursework. Fallback destinations — event delivery, club operations, integrity units — start around £22,000–£26,000. The taught award qualifies graduates for the Graduate Route, at 18 months for applications on or after 1 January 2027 versus two years before, with no dependant rights on taught student visas.
What it costs per year · indicative
Living cost is an estimate; tuition is the institute's published international fee. We confirm exact, current figures before you pay anything.
Do you qualify?
These are the published minimums. Whether your profile fits — with your marks, gap and budget — is exactly what a free counsellor check confirms.
Admission requirements
Who can apply (guide for international students):
- Education: A four-year bachelor’s degree (or equivalent as assessed by DMU) with a minimum of 70% per the portal export — note the CourseFinder source describes the same entry as a UK 2:2 honours class; verify the operative bar with DMU admissions.
- English (meet any one, per source): IELTS 7 overall with no band below 5.5; PTE Academic 61 overall (no component below 59); TOEFL iBT 79 overall; Duolingo English Test 120.
- English waiver: English test waiver may be available on Medium of Instruction plus Standard 12 English at 65% or above (2015 or later, all boards) except boards of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh — assessed case by case per the CourseFinder source.
- Application: No application fee. Deposit amount not stated in source — confirm with DMU International before CAS stage.
English requirements
✓ MOI waiver: if your degree was taught in English, you may skip the test with a Medium-of-Instruction certificate. Ask us to confirm.
Documents you'll need typical · we confirm yours
- Valid passport (6+ months validity)
- Class 10 & 12 marksheets and certificates
- Bachelor's degree marksheets & final certificate
- English test scorecard (IELTS / PTE / TOEFL) or MOI certificate
- Statement of Purpose (SOP)
- Letters of Recommendation (LOR)
- Updated CV / resume
- Financial proof — bank statement / loan sanction
- Passport-size photographs
- Study-gap affidavit or work-experience letter (if applicable)
Getting documents right is the #1 reason applications succeed or get refused — our team checks every file before submission.
Career opportunities
Typical first destinations for graduates:
- Sports Administrator — competition and governance operations at federations
- Player/Athlete Support Officer — welfare and compliance roles
- Sports Integrity Analyst — anti-doping and anti-corruption casework
- Club Operations Coordinator — matchday and facility management
- Sports Policy Researcher — governing bodies and consultancies
- Event Delivery Executive — major-event organising committees
Reality check: sport governance is a small, network-driven world; this course’s alumni web is its real asset, and graduates who don’t work that network aggressively end up competing for generic admin roles.
About De Montfort University
- Type
- University
- Ownership
- Public
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- World rank
- #851
- Reference No.
- 10001883
