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The Sports Journalism MA seeks to create graduates ready to excel in all media environments.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University (Coventry)
Study mode
Full-time
Part-time
Duration
1 year full-time
2 years part-time
Course code
AHT093
Start date
September 2025
January 2026
At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated by January 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.
You will be challenged to create content for your favoured sports including cricket, rugby, football, golf, tennis, cycling, boxing, MMA and global sports of your choosing, across your period of study.
This content will be assessed within modules, but will also then be tailored to deliver maximum impact through your portfolios, showreels and future job applications. You can expect to learn the practical application of law and regulation in journalism as well as ethics.
The course aims to offer you:
We work in collaboration with The RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), and upon successful completion of the 'Creative Futures and Social Change' module, you will receive RSA digital badging.
Sports Journalism MA students will learn how to tell stories in writing, on video, audio and for social media. You'll focus on storytelling in ways that both inform and entertain. You'll be encouraged to be ambitious, informed and efficient media practitioners who can add value to any digital platform, newsroom or media organisation. Additionally, you'll be expected to produce professional standard material through a succession of news days which are supported by our 'Journalism Essentials' sessions and are spread across the modules.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
The course aims to produce capable, critical, analytical, reflective and creative journalism professionals with specialist knowledge, familiar with the contemporary journalistic context and proficient in cross-media and cross-platform skills and techniques (especially print, broadcast and digital).
The educational aims of the course are in line with the university's mission statement:
This course can be offered on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Request further information about part-time study.
The number of full-time contact hours may vary from semester to semester, however, on average, it is likely to be around 12 contact hours per week. The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.
Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 25 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the university may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.
Assessment methods include:
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy aims to ensure that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
You will be actively encouraged to explore international stories and coverage opportunities2 across your studies. The course team will assist you with developing international connections, where appropriate, to this end.
We believe that students must be provided with the core theories and skills to create high-quality written and broadcast output. However, instead of spending hours in lecture theatres, we know that this learning is best enhanced when tested in live sports environments (alongside local and national reporters), with support and guidance provided by tutors on how to achieve optimum results.
Coventry University’s Sports Journalism MA aims to ensure this is the case through working collaborations established with governing bodies, professional sports clubs, talent agencies and media businesses.
Matt Read, Course Director, Sports Journalism MA, in the press box at Wembley, quoted 2023
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £11,200 |
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EU | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £11,200 per year with EU Support Bursary** 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£18,600 per year without EU Support Bursary** |
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International | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees -£18,600 |
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For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page.
We offer a range of international scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees3 cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.
The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.
Our aim is to offer you sector-leading facilities4.
As a student, you’ll have access to Coventry University’s two specialist media loan shops. These well-stocked facilities offer an extensive range of specialist, professional photography, audio and film equipment.
You will have access to our on-campus TV studio, The Tank, with its specialist TV equipment, including studio cameras, autocues, green screen and a large gallery including multi-screen display, mixing facilities and fibre-optic wiring throughout.
Coventry University’s newest development is a technologically advanced and diverse creative space. It is home to immersive studios, hyper studios, hack labs, audio hubs, galleries and lecture facilities. That’s audio, video, photography, AR, VR and the written word under one roof, which are all increasingly playing their part in journalistic storytelling.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
You should be able to:
My personal preference for sports revolves around motorsport and the team has been great in helping me pursue my interests. I have taken on an incredible placement with Alpine F1 and spoken with a member of McLaren F1’s communications team. In the coming months, there are plans to work with the England Under-21s team and local Ice Hockey franchises.
Since I arrived at Coventry University, the amount of sporting opportunities that have come up has been amazing. I’ve personally been able to attend the England Men’s World Cup squad announcement at St George’s Park which gave me the opportunity to be in the press conference with the leading reporters in the country.
Fintan Starkey, Journalism BA (Hons), 2022