Course summary
Our course enables you to enhance and develop your management skills, so you can navigate the music industry better and capitalise on career opportunities as a manager within the creative industries. It provides a comprehensive and complementary educational and practical experience, combining postgraduate research with the most up to date management practice. Throughout the course you explore the fundamentals underpinning successful management practice. This includes management theory, artist and product development, entrepreneurship, organisational structures and behaviours, new music business models, music streaming metrics and data insights that inform business decision making. The curriculum promotes and supports real-world industry engagement and research through career-led practical project work that contributes to your ongoing professional development and personal career planning.
Modules
TERM 1: Academic Skills // The Music Industry // Music Management Project - Feasibility and Planning // TERM 2: Research Project // Music Management - Process and Execution // TERM 3: Dissertation // Practical Project Dissertation
Assessment method
The course employs a number of relevant assessment strategies: essays, reports, feasibility studies, evaluative presentations, portfolios, plus a dissertation and practice. You are introduced to the principles of documentation and evidence recording in the performing arts so that any insights gained from the embodiment of ideas in practice can be supported or illustrated by data. The course culminates in student led practice based, or research dissertation which require the asking of contemporary key questions. Practical/written work ratio: 50% practical work / 50% reflective work
Entry requirements
You are expected to have a good degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience. International students also need to meet our English Language requirements of 5.5 overall score for IELTS, with a minimum of 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). Other equivalent English language examinations will be considered.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Channel Islands | £12000 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
| EU | £20250 | Whole course |
| England | £12000 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £12000 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £12000 | Whole course |
| Wales | £12000 | Whole course |
| International | £20250 | Whole course |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Mount Street
Liverpool
L1 9HF