About Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences

Wittenborg mission is:

To promote excellence in teaching and learning international business and management, as well as to create the best environment for students and staff, where internationalization, diversity and ethics lay the foundations of successfully applied, research-informed global learning.

With the main campus based in Apeldoorn, Wittenborg University introduces students to organizations in the local area and region, enhancing the region’s economy, cultural and social climate. The Amsterdam location enables, Wittenborg University to support international entrepreneurs coming to the Netherlands, with a tailored, entrepreneurial bachelor’s program. Enter Wittenborg and you enter a highly motivated and results-driven organization operating in a diverse and multicultural environment, in which more than 100 nationalities work, study, innovate and socialize together. Wittenborg believes that learning should be an enjoyable process that allows you to develop your goals and aspirations, and provides you with the constant support and the required study pressure to achieve those targets.

Wittenborg graduates are world citizens; they nurture respect and have a sense of achievement. They have developed ambition and pride themselves in excellence. They are the greatest ambassadors of Wittenborg.

About Program

If you are looking to advance your management career in the sorts related industry, then the MBA in Sports Business Management will enable you to advance into management roles from an existing position, or prepare you to enter a new role at a management level.

The MBA in Sports Business Management is one of the specializations in our international MBA program offered at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences in Apeldoorn to full-time and part time students from the Netherlands and around the world.

An international team of lecturers and business leaders has been designed this MBA for those ready to make the climb into management roles, either from an existing job or graduates with some work experience who are aspiring to become managers. Together with the traditional MBA building blocks, this MBA in Sports Business Management offers additional modules with a particular focus on leadership and management roles in companies in the sport business industry nationally, and internationally.

The program is designed for those looking for an MBA and who are interested in the sports industry and who are aiming to enter managerial roles, as well as students from other sectors interested in the sports business sector.

Throughout the Wittenborg MBA, we take a strategic perspective on business and management, in this specialization specifically from within the sports business sector, always from an international viewpoint, and help you to develop the skills to contribute to major decisions made by your current or future organizations that will help shape their future.

We welcome students from any academic or working discipline background to apply for this program. Many entrants to our Wittenborg MBA program do so with a science or technology background – it is not necessary that you have studied business or management before – the first semester equips you with all the tools you require to specialize further on the MBA in Sports Business Management program.

• Further develop your current skills and experience to a management level;
• Extend your interest in financial decision making;
• Develop a strategic perspective on business;