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Interested students are required to apply to the School of Communication Sports Communication certificate program after attaining sophomore standing and completing 12 graded credit hours at OSU. Admission to the certificate program is only open to current undergraduate degree-seeking OSU students and requires a cumulative 2.5 OSU GPA.

As part of the application, students are required outline which courses they plan to take to complete the certificate requirements.

What is your OSU email address (lastname.#@buckeyemail.osu.edu)?

Current undergraduate major:

What is your current OSU GPA?

Expected graduation term and year (example: Spring 2026):

Have you already completed or are currently enrolled in any of the following required certificate courses? Check all that apply.

COMM 3415: Sports, Mass Media & Society
COMM 3403: Sports Journalism
COMM 3414: Sports Media Relations

Which of the Sports Communication certificate elective options have you or do you plan to take? Two are required.

AFAMAST 2275: Blackness and the Politics of Sport
COMM 2131: Business and Professional Speaking
KNSISM 3208: The Sport Industry
KNSISM 4245: Leadership and Programming in the Sport Industry
PHILOS 2456: Philosophy of Sport
PSYCH 2420: Psychology Applied to Sport
SLAVIC 2365.xx: Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia & Eastern Europe

For certificate assessment purposes, we would like to request a non-OSU email address that you plan to use post-graduation.