EXCITING NEWS FOR THE 2024-25 ACADEMIC YEAR!
Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, the Department of Sport Management has partnered with the Department of Computer Science to offer Sport Analytics as a specialization within the Rice Professional Master of Data Science program (only available for the on-campus program). This offering joins the BA in Sport Analytics, which is one of the nation's only standalone sport analytics undergraduate majors.
The Sport Analytics specialization (which can be completed in three semesters) requires at least three of the following courses:
- SMGT 530 (Introduction to Sport Analytics)
- SMGT 531 (Advanced Sport Analytics)
- SMGT 532 (Soccer Analytics)
- SMGT 535 (Baseball Analytics)
- SMGT 590 (Seminar in Sport Analytics).
These courses offer you the opportunity to prepare yourself as a job candidate in the exciting, growing field of Sport Analytics.