Course summary

Our BA (Hons) Events and Festivals Management (with Integrated Foundation and Professional Practice Year) is a five year degree programme, including a foundation year to help develop your creativity before you embark on year one of a degree. Your fourth academic year would then include a year in industry placement. Want to be the next Michael Eavis, putting on world-class festivals, or have your sights set on events management in the corporate sphere? Our BA (Hons) Events & Festivals Management degree course at UCA Epsom will help you get there. This degree is designed to immerse students in the organisation of events and festivals management and the audience experiences within these arenas. Event industry specialists have developed the course and teach it, and you’ll work directly with directly with venues, artists and audiences and other industry partners, as you develop your skills. Employability is woven through the course and is evidenced in the overall philosophical course aims, in the approach to teaching and learning, as well as being underpinned by co-curriculum activities, where students will gain transferable skills which add value to future employment and enterprising ventures. Professional placements form part of your core teaching, equipping you to be adaptable, resilient, globally minded, confident, entrepreneurial, and digitally savvy.