The MA Creative and Cultural Industries Management course offers a practical learning approach. Our flexible programme enables you to select a sector to focus on. This will allow you to specialise in one topic, whilst also taking core creative industry management modules.

The course content will explore the challenges involved in combining culture and management. You will develop ways to help improve the range of creative talent in the marketplace without disrupting creativity.

This Master's course welcomes graduates coming from any undergraduate subject area. This course allows you to change career direction and focus more on cultural leadership and enterprise.

You will select your specialism during the course induction phase, choosing from:

• Music, Festivals and Events
• Arts and Media
• Cultural Heritage and Museums
• Galleries and Visual Arts

This Creative and Cultural Management course is enhanced by our strong partnerships and links with leading organisations in the industry. Many of our partners now also employ our previous graduates. Our links with industry include; Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, Baltic Centre for Contemporary ART and National Trust.

You will also have the opportunity to do an 8-week placement in a creative or heritage organisation. This will provide you with the experience of real time working, giving you a career edge. This work experience can further equip you with the skills and knowledge employers are looking for.

The employment patterns within the cultural sector are constantly evolving, with freelance, self-employment, enterprise, project and portfolio working being increasingly common ways of working. This course will equip you with highly developed interpersonal skills, intercultural awareness, leadership and management understanding and competencies that will allow you to successfully work within this sector.  

This course will also equip you with the necessary foundation to progress your qualification to PhD level.

Visit our alumni Facebook group to gain a better understanding of the students, networks, issues and job opportunities explored in this programme.