Bachelor in Sports and Tourism Management
Kaunas, Lithuania
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,630 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Fees are subject to change
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor in Sports and Tourism Management at Lithuanian Sports University draws on nine decades of movement and sports science to train enterprising, socially responsible sports managers. The programme teaches managerial skills, resource and process management, entrepreneurship, information collection and analysis, and research for sport and tourism, event management, sport business.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can build their own business, represent athletes, or work as executives, managers or administrators in national and foreign sports organizations, clubs, associations and federations, and in public-sector tourism enterprises. They also access second-cycle studies in Business and Management and can progress to a Master’s degree.
On the basis of achievements in fundamental and applied interdisciplinary science and technology of an international level, to train university level enterprising and socially responsible sports managers, able to work in business, public and state organizations and organize as well as run their own business. Objectives of this study program are to train demonstration of managerial knowledge and skills, management of resources and processes in the sports sector. As well as prepare sports managers to demonstrate entrepreneurship skills in the sports sector and collection, organization and analysis of targeted information also carrying out research.
- English language level: IELTS Academic 5.5+, TOEFL iBT (0–120) 46–59, Cambridge English exam 160+, Pearson PTE Academic 50+, LanguageCert IESOL B2, or Duolingo English Test 90+
- Credits: 180 credits (ECTS)
- Begins: October 1st, 2026
- Study type: Full-time (3 years)
- Duration: 3 years
- Prerequisites: Diploma (certificate) of Secondary Education
- Qualification to be conferred: Bachelor of Business Management
FIRST YEAR
- Critical Thinking and Academic Communication
- Social and Psychological Well-being
- Olympic Movement and Sports Ethics
- Basics of Sports and Tourism Management
- Management Systems in Law
- Human Recourses in Sport and Tourism
- Economics and Finances
- Sport Games
- Sports Tourism
SECOND YEAR
- Events of Leisure and Sport
- Hospitality and Organization of Tourism Services
- Sport Policy and Governance
- Business of E-Tourism
- E-Sports and Technologies
- Marketing of Sport Tourism
- Entrepreneurship in Sport and Tourism
THIRD YEAR
- Research Methodology I
- Elective Module
- Final Thesis I
- Internship
- Sustainability in Sport and Tourism
- Final Thesis II
- Social Media and Digitalization
- Research Methodology II
- Elective Module
The program’s goal is to give students a solid foundation in management and business administration, as well as to help them develop an ethically responsible personality with creative and entrepreneurial skills that will enable them to evaluate and predict the national and international business environment, develop innovative activities in sports and leisure organizations, conduct applied research projects in the tourism and sports sectors, and apply research findings in daily operations.
- Build your own business or represent athletes, work as an executive, manager or administrator in national/foreign sports organizations (associations, federations, clubs).
- Build and develop your own business, work as an executive, manager in public sector enterprises, national/ Foreign sports organizations which provides tourism services.
- Graduates have access to the second cycle studies in the field of Business and Management or other programmes in the area of Social Sciences in Lithuania and abroad and acquire Master’s degree.