MS license
objectives
The aim of the MS degree is to train professionals in the management and organization of physical and sporting activities for all types of public (children, teenagers, adults, the elderly, even the disabled) and in the various sectors of activity linked to sport, including three in particular: associative sports organizations(sports federations, leagues, clubs, etc.), public bodies (local authorities) and private sports management and events organizations.
general presentation
The MS degree is an interdisciplinary course. On the one hand, it combines scientific, sports and managerial courses, and on the other, within the latter, all management science disciplines are covered (as well as economic and legal skills). The emphasis is on professional integration, with internships (present every semester) playing a key role. It ensures student success, in particular through tutoring. Every year, the program integrates the use of modern languages. Some members of the teaching team are promoting TOEIC certification via a complementary DU. A link with research training is established through an introduction to epistemology. Since 2024-25, the program has included teaching on the ecological transition.
STRUCTURING TRAINING
The Licence MS is organized in the form of a funnel: only a core curriculum in L1, with management specialization starting in L2, and increasing in L3 to become the majority of the core curriculum in the final year. L3 MS students are offered a choice of two courses: Entreprises et Loisirs Sportifs and Fonction Publique Territoriale (shared with the ES degree).
RECRUITMENT
A significant proportion (between 15 and 25% depending on the year) of Licence MS students do not go through Montpellier's L1 STAPS, but join the program directly in L2 or L3 MS. Most of these students come from other UFR STAPS (whether or not they offer the management specialization), IUT (GEA, Tech de Co), DEUST ACSS, and more rarely from BTS, classes préparatoires, or the Campus France stream.
PROFESSIONALIZATION
Students enrolled in the FPT pathway are naturally destined to join the local civil service by passing a competitive entrance examination (ETAPS, CTAPS). Students enrolled in the Entreprises et Loisirs Sportifs (Sports Business and Leisure) pathway are destined to manage sports structures and/or infrastructures (commercial or associative). Their areas of professionalization are manifold: distribution, events, fitness, sports leisure and tourism, administration within professional sports clubs, (digital) communication, marketing....In recent years, a growing number of students entering the job market have chosen to broaden their perspectives by joining structures that do not necessarily belong to the world of sport.
FURTHER STUDIES
Students wishing to continue their studies at Master's level are offered numerous opportunities to do so, and are regularly welcomed into a large number of Masters programs. These include (based on the last 10 years) the in-house Master's in Sports Tourism Management, as well as 8 Masters offered by MOMA and 4 by the IAE de Montpellier. In addition, many of our alumni have obtained their Master's degrees from one of the 21 leading French universities and/or IAEs outside Montpellier. Last but not least, some 4 to 5 students every year for the past 10 years have also been pursuing their studies at a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.