This course is subject to validation. You can still apply for this course while it is being approved.
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
Course summary
Our course gives you the skills, experience and contacts you need to have a sustained career as a manager in the creative industries and performing arts. You start with a broad curriculum that allows you to explore and discover the many roles that exist. From the second year, you can specialise by following one of three management pathways: Music Industry Management; Management for Live Events or Theatre and Screen. If you wish, you can continue with a broad curriculum, selecting two options from the three pathways. We provide a creative environment for you to experiment and learn, as you expand your skills and knowledge and build a unique portfolio of creative, engaging and enterprising projects that you have managed and delivered. This course was previously titled BA (Hons) Management of Music, Entertainment, Theatre & Events. Places available each year: 34
Modules
/ YEAR ONE: Contracts, Copyright and Intellectual Property / Creating Content / Funding for the Creative Industries and Performing Arts / Critical Skills for Managers / The Contemporary Creative Industries / Understanding Marketing for the Creative Industries and Performing Arts / Practical Creative Project / // YEAR TWO: Audience Insights and Data Analytics for the Creative Industries and Performing Arts / Business in the Creative Industries and Performing Arts / Strategic Marketing Techniques / Personal and Professional Development for Managers / Practical Project / Management for Live Events Pathway - Legal Safe and Sustainable Events and Projects (Option) / Management for Live Events Pathway - Managing Live Events (Option) / Music Industry Management Pathway - Music Industry Management (Option) / Music Industry Management Pathway - Popular Music - Context and Culture (Option) / Theatre and Screen Pathway - Understanding Producing (Option) / Theatre and Screen Pathway - Original Production (Option) / /// YEAR THREE: Placement Project (Option) / Enterprise Project (Option) / Creative Industries Conference / Research Project
Assessment method
You will be assessed through practical, verbal, and written work, including such things as presentations, tutor observation of your practical work, essays, short reports and evaluations, open book tests, spoken ‘viva’ reports and in your final year, a research-based project, which can be either a traditional written dissertation, or a more ‘practice-based’ project. All of your assignment tasks are designed to be relevant to and reflective of the work and knowledge you may be expected to engage with as a professional within the Creative Industries and Performing Arts. During your time as a Management student at LIPA, you will devise, produce, manage, and deliver a range of projects and creative products, taking on an increasing amount of individual responsibility for your work as you progress through each year. Practical/Academic work ratio 50% practical assignments / 50% academic assignments
Qualified teacher status (QTS)
To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:
- Course does not award QTS
How to apply
31Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- W450
- Institution code:
- L48
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 96 points
A level - CCC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - MMM
Additional entry requirements
Interview
Audition
Student Outcomes
Operated by the Office for Students
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
Go onto work and study
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| EU | £19500 | Year 1 |
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| International | £19500 | Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
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