MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise
University of the Arts, London
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MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise teaches you to generate original ideas for arts and cultural events as well as how to realise them.Course overviewThe college is at the centre of a global network of alumni, educator-practitioners, and collaborating organisations and institutions. MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise works with knowledgeable practitioners to create an inspiring learning experience, within a wide-ranging professional network.The intensive face-to-face teaching takes place at Central ...Read more

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise teaches you to generate original ideas for arts and cultural events as well as how to realise them.

Course overview

The college is at the centre of a global network of alumni, educator-practitioners, and collaborating organisations and institutions. MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise works with knowledgeable practitioners to create an inspiring learning experience, within a wide-ranging professional network.

The intensive face-to-face teaching takes place at Central Saint Martins’ King’s Cross campus for the students enrolled in the London-based cohort, and at HKU SPACE’s Hong Kong campus for the Hong Kong-based students. Both cities are contemporary hubs for the cultural industries in their regions, and also rich sources of historical innovation across a wide range of cultural sectors, including museums, galleries, performance, festivals, and educational institutions.

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise acknowledges that we are living in a fast-changing, globalised world, which presents a great number of opportunities and challenges for cultural innovation. This Masters Programme takes these changing conditions as a starting point to engage you in developing new knowledge and skills in order to manage cultural projects in the UK and around the world. It has been developed specifically in response to an increasing need for multi-skilled individuals who can both generate the ideas for original arts and cultural events, as well as provide leadership for the teams that realise them. These individuals will be dynamic, responsive, and fluent in public and private sectors, and have the ability to collaborate and develop networks.

The course addresses a contemporary shift within the cultural economy towards experiences and events, and away from the artefact. It is a response to multiple new forms of artistic and creative practice (interdisciplinary, time-based, socially-engaged, etc.), which demand new, hybrid forms of cultural management and organisation, and in turn, a new pedagogical approach from higher education institutions.

MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise takes as a starting point a definition of enterprise as engaging with projects that are new, challenging and complex, in order to create a valuable difference to specific stakeholders. It aims to enable you to gain a unique skill and knowledge set to become active creators in cultural management and production, be it as entrepreneurs, or within larger existing cultural organisations, anywhere in the world. For this reason, the course values rich cultural diversity, and benefits from the broad range of cultural backgrounds of its students, staff, and the college generally. Cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue are the essential point-of-departure for cultural and creative innovation, which generates cultural capital, and in turn fosters economic capital formation.

The course is aimed at graduates with some years of work experience who wish to challenge themselves by gaining a critical understanding of our world today as well as skills in the design, planning and production of creative events in the broadest sense. Focusing on the core capabilities of CSM, and its central role in the future of arts and other creative industries, it will offer you insights into aspects of cultural policy and governance, an introduction to business skills and processes, and strategic planning, which will equip you to shape creative futures. It will encourage radical thinking, based on creative research, analysis, and a deep understanding of the value of the cultural economy, and its role in creating cultural capital, to the wider economic, political and social environment in which it is located.

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Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows: an honours degree from disciplines such as fine art or design, the humanities, social sciences, politics or economics, or other areas of creative practice such as performance or an equivalent EU/international qualification and a minimum of two years of work experience in the arts, design, performance or creative business management and administration sectors. The course will not recruit from end-on students (i.e. those progressing directly from undergraduate degrees).

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£6,350 per year

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£6,350 per year (Part time); £1,410 per 20 credit unit (Flexible mode). This fee is correct for entry in January 2025 and subject to change for entry in January 2026. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year.

£12,530 per year

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Students from EU

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£12,530 per year (Part time); £2,780 per 20 credit unit (Flexible mode). This fee is correct for entry in January 2025 and subject to change for entry in January 2026. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year.

£12,530 per year

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Please note: The fees might vary so please make sure you contact the institution for up to date information.

Students from International

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£12,530 per year (Part time); £2,780 per 20 credit unit (Flexible mode). This fee is correct for entry in January 2025 and subject to change for entry in January 2026. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students on courses lasting more than one year.

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