Program Overview

Introduction to the MA Arts and Project Management Course

The MA Arts and Project Management course is designed for those who wish to pursue a career in arts management, gaining expertise in the requirements for managing, delivering, and marketing engaging arts projects, cultural experiences, and events.

Course Overview

On this course, you will learn how arts organisations, cultural spaces, festivals, and visual and performing arts projects are produced and managed. The course enables you to develop professional and practical experience, gaining advanced organisational, planning, and marketing skills.

What's Covered in This Course?

You will develop key transferable skills in creative thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, creative strategy, project management, stakeholder mapping, budgeting, marketing, communication, presentation, independent research, critical, and analytical thinking skills. This prepares you for life as a professional project manager, a PhD researcher, or to work in other related careers.

Career Opportunities

Graduates from the course go on to work in various contexts, such as the museum and gallery sector, marketing communications, exhibitions and events management, front-of-house roles, entrepreneurial activities, arts operation, and management. Potential career opportunities include:

• Arts producers
• Creative producers
• Arts Project Manager
• Events Manager
• Arts Marketer
• Marketing and Communications Officers
• Lead Social Media Co-Ordinator
• Arts Officers
• Performance Event Manager
• Arts Communication Roles
• Partnerships Coordinator
• Arts Administrators
• Festival Manager Creative Director

Entry Requirements

Essential Requirements

• BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art or Art and Design, or other Arts-based Degree course or related subject.
• The minimum academic qualification required is a 2:2 award.
• Those with equivalent prior professional or life experience will also be considered.
• IELTS 6.0 overall with 5.5 minimum in all bands or its equivalent.

Fees and How to Apply

UK Students

• Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study.
• The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament.
• Award: MA
• Starting: Sep 2025
• Mode: Full Time, Part Time
• Duration: 1 year, 2 years
• Fees:
  • Full Time: ｣9,190 in 2025/26
  • Full Time with Professional Placement: ｣10,110 in 2025/26
  • Part Time: ｣1022 per 20 credits

International Students

• Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study.
• The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament.
• Award: MA
• Starting: Sep 2025
• Mode: Full Time
• Duration: 1 year, 18 months (including Professional Placement)
• Fees:
  • Full Time: ｣18,600 in 2025/26
  • Full Time with Professional Placement: ｣20,460 in 2025/26

Course Structure

The course includes the following modules:

• Producing Creative Events and Projects (40 credits)
• Research Through Practice (20 credits)
• Strategic Marketing and Communication for the Arts (40 credits)
• Professional Project (60 credits)
• Industry Project (20 credits)
• Independent Creative Entrepreneur (20 credits)
• Work Placement (20 credits)

Employability

The course is designed to enhance employability skills, with specific modules addressing employability. Placements are one of the possible ways of fulfilling the Research in Practice module, providing an opportunity to gain insight into how an organisation works.

Facilities and Staff

The Birmingham School of Art provides an incredible resource for the production of art and its associated fields of study, with facilities including studios, workshops, a specialist art and design library, bookable spaces, and lecture/seminar rooms. The staff team includes practising artists and researchers with expertise in their fields, providing guidance and support throughout the course.