College Sports Jobs & Careers: Links to Key College Athletics Employers

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES LINKS

There are about 4,200 colleges and universities with sports programs in the USA, and a couple thousand more that have intramural sports, physical fitness and recreational programs. To find accredited schools, you can use the online U.S. Department of Education database, and select a segment, such as "public 4-year institutions" in your state, "private 2-year schools" or "nonprofit 4-year and above" in a certain region. (Broader searches will return too many results for the system to display.): www.ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.asp

A site by Mike Conlon of the University of Florida lists links directly to American college and university websites here: www.clas.ufl.edu/au/

Chris Redmond of the University of Waterloo has a similar list for Canadian schools: www.uwaterloo.ca/canu/

Maricopa Community Colleges keeps a current list of community college websites, currently linking to 1,287 colleges: www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cc/

Go to JCFootball.com for a list of community college football programs nationwide. There are almost 150 community colleges that play junior college football (click All Teams Websites link): www.jcfootball.com

For news and information about NCAA member colleges and universities, go straight to the National Collegiate Athletic Association: www.ncaa .org/wps/portal

ACADEMICS AND ATHLETICS PERIODICALS

The NCAA News lists athletic vacancies from athletic directors to assistant coaches.

The News: Use The NCAA News tab at the top of this page: www.ncaa.org/wps/portal
The Online Ads: ncaa.thetask.com/market/jobs/browse.php

On the academic side, check out Chronicle of Higher Education for all types of positions, from presidents and deans to coaching and athletic positions: www.chronicle.com

For sports jobs, NCAA News (above), Athletic Business, and Coach and Athletic Director are good sources. Unfortunately, Coach doesn't put any ads online. So try http://www.athleticbusiness.com/classifieds/

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics: www.naia.org

National Collegiate Athletic Association: www.ncaa.org

National Junior College Athletic Association: www.njcaa.org

Commission on Athletics (Calif. Community Colleges): www.coasports.org

National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics: nacda.cstv.com/

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