Music Business (Taught)

An innovative master’s degree for music industry professionals.

Designed for those with established careers in the music industry, but also those passionate about music and looking develop their music industry work and opportunities, the MA Music Business course at WaterBear can fast-track your professional activity in music, at whatever stage of your professional journey.

This comprehensive postgraduate qualification will help you become an adaptive thinker, creator, and entrepreneur within a music industry that shapes the zeitgeist of contemporary culture. You’ll gain academic proficiency, professional credibility, and benefit from a guaranteed work placement. You’ll also develop your entrepreneurialism to maximise areas of potential revenue and enterprise. It’s flexible, innovative, and designed to fit your lifestyle. This MA has a work-based learning approach, which means you don’t necessarily need an undergraduate degree to enrol on this course if you have the right amount of professional experience.

Taught by experienced music industry professionals, you’ll become part of a vibrant community of creatives and benefit from a flexible, hands-on learning experience. You’ll also have access to areas such as career development, one-to-one mentoring, academic sessions, live performance, and industry networking and events, all designed to support your development professionally, artistically and academically.

Modules:
Your Place in the Music Industry
Brand & Marketing
Your Development
Creating Income
Your Enterprise

Assessment methods typically include written, audio and video-based submissions, presentations, evidence portfolios and business plans.