Music Business (Hons) University of Gloucestershire

Overview

Throughout the Music Business (Hons) course from University of Gloucestershire you’ll learn how to run live events, develop and manage artists and audiences, conduct sophisticated promotional campaigns and launch your own music enterprises.

You’ll gain specialist knowledge in music law and copyright, artist management, marketing/PR and events production and management. Most of all, you’ll be supported to build your own professional network from day one.

Our media centre lets you access modern studios, media suites and performance and broadcast spaces. You’ll work closely with creative arts, media and tech students, managing collaborative and large-scale projects on music festival stages, in national campaigns and at a range of live events and enterprises.

The course is packed with opportunities for you to gain professional experience, including the option of a full placement year in the UK. The professional network of staff and graduates is very well connected and proactive. We invite you to gain experience in all corners of the music industry, which you submit as practical coursework as you progress through your degree.

Music Business at University of Gloucestershire is highly practical and coursework-based. You’ll benefit from a mixture of workshops and practical sessions, lectures/seminars and industry work placements – with coursework making up 96% of your assessment.

You’ll also have the choice of whether to pursue a three-year degree with short work placement opportunities embedded, or to opt for four years and add a full year work placement between your second and final years of study.

Career opportunities:

Together, the lecturers and the extensive history of successful and active graduates in industry are part of an extraordinary professional network you will connect with when you join the course.

We cover all the major labels and publishing companies, national and international media, streaming and distribution services and just about every festival and events company you can name.

Add to this the many of us who choose to work in the UK’s world-leading independent sector, to ensure this grass roots and community music scenes survive, innovate and flourish.

Graduates from the course go on to work as artist managers, live events professionals, digital marketing specialists, publishing and licensing executives and creative directors in companies such as Universal Music Group, Live Nation, Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment UK, Kobalt, Glastonbury Festival, Ditto Music, CYOA, DMY Artists, Twitch, The Music Works and many more.