BA (Hons) Music Management has been designed to offer you an understanding of the music industry. The degree uses a combination of simulated learning environments, lecture material and practical workshops to offer you a new pathway to realising their potential careers.

The degree establishes core understandings of how and why the business operates and builds on this knowledge with a strong focus on new and creative marketing concepts. BA (Hons) Music Management is uniquely situated to offer the students practice-based learning opportunities through university generated initiatives. To develop the mindset required to work in the music business that rewards pragmatically focused results we offer students the scope to direct their own learning and take risks.

You will spend their first year gaining an understanding of prerelease supply chain, the live music industry, and basic copyright/contract law. These subject areas provide the foundations for students to practice in the music business.

After gaining a working knowledge of the business, you will be educated about the principles of music publishing as well as pre and post release strategies. The degree focuses on the importance of visual media and branding to acknowledge the visual shift in the wider industry. As well as the practical and student driven learning, the course encourages you in academic and critical thinking. You will be equipped with the critical skills to operate in the music industry, and to become a new generation of leaders that shape the music industry.

The degree features many opportunities to practice business, such as running live events and working firsthand at the universities record label. Allowing students to develop their CVs and gain experience prior to graduating.

All BA(Hons) Music Management students will have access to digital distribution with no upfront cost for their musical endeavours during their studies to promote student led entrepreneurship and a strong creative community via the university record label.

As part of a University wide scholarship, students enrolling on the BA(Hons) Music Management course in the coming academic year will receive a free pair of Sennheiser headphones as well as multiple key textbooks upon enrolment.

Once you graduate you could go on to work in:

• artist management
• booking agencies
• PR and press
• publishing
• record labels
•  event and tour managing
• collection societies