Course summary
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
Modules: Your Place in the Music Industry Brand & Marketing Your Development Creating Income Your Enterprise
Assessment method
Assessment methods typically include written, audio and video-based submissions, presentations, evidence portfolios and business plans.
How to apply
International applicants
We regret that this course is not available to international applicants who would require a Student Visa. If English is not your first language, you will need to demonstrate English language skills that are sufficiently developed for successful completion of your studies. We accept a range of recognised English language qualifications.
Entry requirements
Typically, you’ll have an undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject area and a clear interest in your subject. If you don’t have an honours degree, you may be able to satisfy entry requirements through the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) process. This provides an entry route for those who have a significant amount of music industry-relevant experience but may not have a degree.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this 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
WaterBear, Sheffield
Unit 4, Gatecrasher
49 Eyre Lane
Sheffield
S1 4RB