About Music Business BA (hons) in University of Gloucestershire

This is a contemporary music business degree that applies leading-edge technologies and ideas to help you develop a multi-skilled and entrepreneurial approach to new business, globally and locally.

Our Music Business BA (Hons) course scored 91% for Assessment & Feedback, 93% for Academic support and 91% for Student voice in the National Student Survey 2021.

You’ll learn how to run live music events, develop and represent artists, conduct sophisticated marketing and promotional campaigns, and launch new music products and services. You’ll gain specialist knowledge in music law and copyright, arts management, emergent technologies, applied business practice and enterprise, as well as leading on projects that will make a difference to people’s lives in commercial, civic and social contexts.

With the keys to our Media Centre, you’ll have access to modern studios, rehearsal spaces, media suites and broadcast theatres. You’ll also work closely with your fellow media, tech and arts students, managing collaborative and large-scale projects such as BBC Introducing sessions.

Graduates from this course can go on to work as:

• Artist Manager
• Marketing Specialist
• New Music Business Entrepreneur
• Events and Tour Manager
• Artist Development Manager
• Digital Content Manager
• Roles within major record labels and publishers and across the UK’s world-beating independent sector.

​​​​​​Entry Requirements

• Successful completion of Higher Secondary Certificate/Indian School Certificate/Standard XII with a minimum of 65% from CISCE and CBSE boards.

English language requirements 

• IELTS :6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in any band
• TOEFL IBT : 80 Reading – 20,Writing -19,Listening – 19,Speaking – 22
• PTE:56

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