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Department of Sports Management and Marketing

About the department

The Department of Sports Management and Marketing of the Faculty of “Higher School of Management” implements undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate programs. Our main goal is to train managers for all subjects of the sports industry:

  • Sports federations
  • Sports clubs
  • Objects of sports infrastructure (stadiums, sports and recreation centers, ski complexes, auto-trails)
  • Sports equipment manufacturers
  • Fitness clubs
  • Cyberspace organizations
  • Sports media
  • Betting companies

We prepare top managers and managers ready to develop the already existing or create new businesses in sports, taking into account the complex realities of the modern world and Russian economy.

We place an emphasis on a unique practice-oriented knowledge base, supported by cooperation with leading sports organizations. Leaders of the sports industry are regularly invited to give lectures to our students, events are regularly organized at sports facilities. Our partners of internships, and we assist our students in realizing their ideas, creative and professional potential through a unique experience of in-house training. In addition, a number of staff retraining programs are being organized.

Administration

Solntsev Ilya Vasilievich

Advisor to the UEFA Football Development Programs:

  • Doctor of Economics

GROW, Football Federations of the Future, Social Return on Investments (SROI).

Member of the Expert Council of the Russian Student Sports Union and the Commission for Inter-sectoral, Investment and Regional Development in the Field of Physical Culture and Sports (Public Council at the Ministry of Sports of Russia).

Ivanova Yulia Olegovna

Deputy Head for Educational and Methodical Work

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Scientific Notes of Young Researcher“s
  • Member of the Free Economic Society of Russia, the Russian Geographical Society, the Council of Young Scientists of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.