Welcome to the Sports Media Program
REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE
Cover athletes or work alongside marquee coaches at a premier NCAA Division I athletics program. Freelance and internship opportunities with local and national media.
BECOME A MEDIA MEMBER
Publish articles in the O’Colly, have telecasts shown on OStateTV and O'Colly TV and host your own radio show on KXZY.
PREPPED TO ENTER THE INDUSTRY
Coursework, practitioner outlets and student clubs in the OSU Sports Media program help the vast majority of our majors find employment after graduation.
PROFESSORS
Each of our faculty members possess practitioner experience in sports media. Learn from the ones who have been there.
MULTIMEDIA FOCUS
An Oklahoma State Sports Media degree provides a variety of skills to succeed in any type of media outlet.
FIND YOURSELF
The versatility of experiences in the OSU Sports Media program provides the insight students need to decide on desired sectors to work in the global sport communication industry.
The Oklahoma State University undergraduate Sports Media program is the largest stand-alone sports media major in the world with more than 400 annual majors and declared pre-majors coming from 24 U.S. states during the 2019 - 20 academic year. The School of Media and Strategic Communications at Oklahoma State offers one of the few stand-alone sports media majors in the world and was the first among NCAA-FBS member institutions to do so.
All nine faculty members in the OSU Sports Media program possesses extensive practitioner experience in the sports communication industry and most focus their research on sports media, which also helps them keep up with trends and happenings in the field. When you pursue an undergraduate degree in sports media from Oklahoma State University, you will receive classic hands-on training in practitioner-based coursework covering all aspects of the multimedia, sport communication industry.
All sports media majors also take industry overview and theoretical courses to provide a broad knowledge. Whereas most of our students have the option to and do takes courses from all areas, OSU Sports Media majors choose from one of two specializations for a focus:
Sports Media/Multimedia Journalism
For students aspiring careers with sports journalism outlets, such as serving as announcers, bloggers, broadcasters, columnists and reporters for online sites, newspapers, radio, social media and television outlets.
Sports Production
For behind-the-scenes careers in sports media production within the sports television, radio and film industries, as well as sports media digital production. Oklahoma State Sports Media has an in-house video production team and many of our students intern with Orange Power studios, the new in-house video production unit for OSU athletics.
Oklahoma State is also one of the few universities in the world to offer graduate education in sports media, offering a track in Sports Media in the M.S. in Mass Communications. Graduate courses in the School of Media and Strategic Communications are taught through a mix of in-class meetings at the OSU Stillwater and Tulsa campuses, and via online delivery.
Students in the master’s Sports Media track can also take SMSC courses in Media Management while taking their outside concentration electives in Sports Management from the Spears School of Business.
