Frequently asked questions – AMOS Sport Business School
Frequently asked questions about the business school specialising in sports management
Academie du Management des Organisations Sportives (Academy for the Management of Sports Organisations).
AMOS Sport Business School was founded in Paris in 2005. Following its success, the school quickly opened further campuses in France in Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Nantes, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Montpellier in 2022, and Nancy in 2023. The school is also expanding internationally, with a campus opening in London in 2016 and campuses in Madrid and Valencia in Spain in 2022, and more openings abroad to come.
AMOS awards professional certifications registered with the RNCP, recognised by the French state and registered with France Competences. These certifications attest to a level of qualification and to the professional skills employers are looking for.
AMOS also awards institutional diplomas carrying ECTS credits, which make further study easier and support the recognition of your qualifications across the European Higher Education Area.
After three or five years of study, our students go on to a wide choice of senior roles in marketing, communications, sports event management, sponsorship, merchandising, sports trading, the media and more.
AMOS places great importance on preparing its students for professional life. Our aim is to train and support them so that they can find an internship, a work-study placement or a job by themselves. The school expects its students to take a proactive approach when looking for a host company.
This self-driven approach is supported by professional development classes throughout the programme. Every student receives personalised support for three or five years. Thanks to this coaching on both interpersonal and technical skills, our students master the tools of the job, internship and work-study search (CVs, covering letters, interviews and so on).
In parallel, AMOS regularly circulates internship and work-study vacancies from partner companies. Job dating days are also held on every campus so that companies can come and meet our students.
The aim of our programmes is to train our students for all the careers that revolve around sport, whether in marketing, events or the management of sports organisations. We do not run classes dedicated to playing sport.
That said, our BDS (sports societies) are very active. They allow our students to play sport outside class hours (university championships, tournaments and more).
Our students are, above all, passionate about sport. They are driven by a genuine desire to combine study, professional experience and international experience in a sector they love. Selected on the strength of their application after taking our placement test and a motivation interview, they come from every kind of background, whether entering straight from school or transferring from another course (direct entry).
AMOS Sport Business School teaches general subjects (marketing, communications, management, law and more) like any business school, along with specialist subjects linked to sports management (sponsorship, events, running sports venues and so on).
These subjects are studied through the lens of sport over three or five years. The skills acquired are, of course, transferable to other sectors. However, we give our students the chance to work in the world they are passionate about by teaching them the specific knowledge and skills of the sports business.
In this way we provide sports organisations with the professionals and specialists they need in order to grow.
The teaching team is made up of experts from the world of sport, senior lecturers, professors, company directors and entrepreneurs. This diversity of backgrounds is what makes our teaching so rich, both in France and abroad.
Every AMOS campus follows the same course framework. Some professionals teach across several of our schools thanks to their standing at national or even international level, and we want all our students to benefit from that.
That said, in keeping with our local roots, each campus develops its own regional expertise, practices and specialisms (sporting culture, the maritime or mountain economy and so on), which help build links between our students and companies in the region (a range of internship, work-study and job opportunities).
To join our programmes, you must hold the Baccalaureat. You then take our placement test, made up of several parts: general and sporting knowledge, written work, English and a presentation of your application to a panel.
Questions about careers in the sports business? About where they can lead?
Please fill in the complaints form available on the AMOS website