Music Business (Online) (Taught)

An innovative Online 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 work placement opportunities. 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 2-year part-time online MA Music Business degree offers you the ultimate freedom and flexibility to study in a way that suits you. It has a work-based learning approach, which means you don’t necessarily need an undergraduate degree to enrol if you have the right amount of professional experience.

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

At WaterBear, your degree isn’t just academic it’s a launchpad for your artistry. You’ll work on your own music, projects, and ideas, guided by tutors who are active in the industry. It’s hands-on, relevant, and designed to move with you. Our online degrees are made for real musicians living real lives. Whether you’re gigging, parenting, producing, teaching, or returning to music later in life — this is a place for you to grow.

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.