Music Business (with placement) - BA (Hons)
University of Gloucestershire
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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This is a fast-moving and exciting degree, designed to help you develop a multi-skilled, enterprising approach to new music business. You’ll learn how to run live music events, develop and manage artists, conduct sophisticated promotional campaigns and launch your own new music enterprises. You’ll gain specialist knowledge in music law and copyright, artist management, emergent technologies, music business and enterprise, and build your own professional network from day one. The Media Centre ...Read more

This is a fast-moving and exciting degree, designed to help you develop a multi-skilled, enterprising approach to new music business. You’ll learn how to run live music events, develop and manage artists, conduct sophisticated promotional campaigns and launch your own new music enterprises. You’ll gain specialist knowledge in music law and copyright, artist management, emergent technologies, music business and enterprise, and build your own professional network from day one. The Media Centre gives you access to modern studios, rehearsal spaces, media suites and broadcast theatres. You’ll work closely with media, tech and arts students, managing collaborative and large-scale projects such as BBC Introducing sessions, Summer festival stages and European tour events.Our lecturers use their extensive professional networks and experiences to bring you the very latest in current practice. They’ve worked at the BBC, Sony, Universal Music and Hospital Records, and maintain good working relationships within the sector. Throughout your degree, they’ll support you to develop the management skills needed to work in the fast-moving and varied music industry. Graduates from this course can go on to work as an artist manager, events and tour manager, new music business entrepreneur and digital content manager. There is also the opportunity to work in a variety of roles within major record labels and publishers and across the UK’s world-beating independent sector.

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85/279
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60th
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72nd
What students say
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James-Dean
05 Dec 24

Not only is it a well-rounded degree that enables students to grow and develop, the lecturers are what sets UoG a part! Knowledgeable, reputable and active in the industry, they..Read more

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Ben
17 Jan 24

Great facilities. Great campus. Based in Cheltenham which is a fantastic town..Read more

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A level:

CCC - BBB Grades / Points required

UCAS Tariff:

96 - 120 Grades / Points required

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016):

MMM - DDM Grades / Points required

T Level:

Pass (C and above) - M Grades / Points required

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£16,600 per year

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Full Time Annual Fees - 16600; Placement Year Fee - 2975

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James-Dean
05 Dec 24
Music Business (with placement) - BA (Hons)
Not only is it a well-rounded degree that enables students to grow and develop, the lecturers are what sets UoG a part! Knowledgeable, reputable and active in the industry, they...
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Ben
17 Jan 24
Sound and Music Production MSc
Great facilities. Great campus. Based in Cheltenham which is a fantastic town...
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University of Gloucestershire
University of Gloucestershire , Cheltenham

Spread across three picturesque campuses, the University of Gloucestershire (UoG) offers a broad range of undergraduate and...

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University of Gloucestershire
The Park,Cheltenham Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL50 2RH United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Cheltenham Spa  0.5 miles away

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