Sports Degrees

Sports Analytics Degrees, Courses and Programs

Using data, statistics and modelling to inform decisions in sport.

What is sports analytics?

Sports analytics applies statistics, data science and visualisation to questions in sport: player recruitment, tactics, performance monitoring, injury risk, ticketing and fan behaviour. Programs may be dedicated degrees, specializations in sports management or data science, or certificates.

Typical content includes statistics and programming, data management, tracking and event data, machine-learning basics and communication of results. Programs differ greatly in how technical they are, so prerequisites such as mathematics or programming are recorded on the listing.

Performance analysis, a related practitioner field, focuses on video and match data for coaches; both are tagged where a program teaches them.

Typical topics: Statistics and modelling, Programming (R, Python, SQL), Tracking and event data, Performance analysis, Visualisation, Decision-making.

Also called: Sport analytics, Performance analysis, Sports data science. These names lead to this one page.

From study to professional practice

Sports analytics is an academic and applied subject with no protected title. Portfolios of analysis projects matter alongside the qualification.

Entry requirements as published

A sample of what verified programs in this subject say. Requirements differ by program, country and intake.

Results are listed alphabetically. There is no price ranking: prices in different currencies and bases (per week, per camp, per term, per year) are not comparable. Missing details (tuition, admissions, accommodation) never remove a verified listing. Training programs closed to the public are shown only when you ask for them. Online programs are never counted as physically located in a state or city. Items marked Sponsored are paid placements; they never change recognition status, verification or order.