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Overview

BA (Hons) Management Course Overview BA (Hons) Management  Course Overview

Our Management course gives you the skills, experience and contacts you need to build a sustained career as a manager in the music and performing arts industries.

Our course enables you to develop a deep understanding of management practice and theory, while working on a wide portfolio of creative projects giving you unparalleled professional experiences and opportunities. You will learn key transferable business and entrepreneurial skills, including artist management, events management, working with labels, theatre and screen. Moreover, you will take a deep dive into marketing, data analytics, managing live events, stakeholder engagement, creative leadership, contracting, copyright and Intellectual Property. These skills will enable you to graduate as a dynamic and inspirational manager who can work across the creative sector in a broad range of roles.

You will have the opportunity to tailor your learning through a choice of optional modules. Pursuing a broad Management pathway covering a range of sectors or specialising on one of our three pathways:

  • Music Industry Management (Artist, Label, Publisher, Distribution)
  • Live Events
  • Theatre & Screen.

By training in a dynamic, international performing arts institute you will develop an expert familiarity with the music industry and performing arts. And through working alongside musicians, producers, filmmakers, actors, dancers, creative technicians, and fellow businesspeople, you will learn how to manage talent and work collaboratively with the teams who power projects and performances.

This course is still open to new applications for a September 2025 start, even though the UCAS deadline has passed.

Course highlights

Course highlights

  • Build your passion into a sustainable career by combining robust management training with opportunities to work on a range of creative projects.
  • Collaborate with artists, performers and creative technicians to deliver exciting creative projects and performances, from developing your own management company, running two-week music festivals to dance extravaganzas and cutting-edge stage and screen shows.
  • Engage deeply with the industry through working with visiting professionals and our core team of staff who have decades of experience working at the forefront of creative management.
  • Undertake an industry placement to develop your career, or pioneer your own creative enterprise in your final year as a springboard to securing sustainable work once you graduate.
  • Perform cutting edge analysis of the latest trends in Management and deliver your research at our annual conference showcasing how the music and performing arts industries are evolving.
  • Seize opportunities outside the curriculum to expand your portfolio, with management students recently working on an award-winning Edinburgh Fringe musical, the Eurovision Song Contest, and the Cunard’s international ceremony to mark the naming of the Queen Anne.

What You Will

Study

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

How You Will

Study

  • Masterclass
    Masterclass
  • Group Work
    Group Work
  • Independent study
    Independent study
  • Workshops
    Workshops
  • Tutorials
    Tutorials
  • Lectures
    Lectures

How You Will Be

Assessed

You will be assessed through practical, verbal, and written work, including such things as presentations, tutor observation of your practical work, essays, short reports and evaluations, open book tests, spoken ‘viva’ reports and in your final year, a research-based project, which can be either a traditional written dissertation, or a more ‘practice-based’ project. All of your assignment tasks are designed to be relevant to and reflective of the work and knowledge you may be expected to engage with as a professional within the Creative Industries and Performing Arts. During your time as a Management student at LIPA, you will devise, produce, manage, and deliver a range of projects and creative products, taking on an increasing amount of individual responsibility for your work as you progress through each year.

Practical/Academic work ratio

50% practical assignments / 50% academic assignments

Validation

LIPA aims to have probationary degree awarding powers from September 2025 (subject to Office for Students approval). This is an exciting step, allowing us to take full control of our curriculum and course portfolio. In the unlikely event LIPA does not achieve probationary degree awarding powers, our degrees will be validated by Liverpool John Moores University.

What Our

Graduates Do

LIPA graduates from this course work in the creative and performing arts industries in event
management, theatre production, organising arena tours, managing and representing music artists, marketing, publishing, promotion, video production and managing social media. Their career achievements have included:

Tabitha Hughes (2022)

Production assistant, Bolton Octagon Theatre.

Patrick Joseph (2022)

Marketing intern (paid), EMI Records.

George Pomford (2022)

Creative assistant, Sentric Music Publishing.

Emma Clarke (2021)

Talent and resource assistant, ITV.

Michaela Munden (2021)

Researcher, This Morning, ITV.

Paige Bithell (2019)

Business development representative at Soho Music.

Joshua Davies (2018)

TV marketing executive for Viacom CBS, with the focus on Channel 5 and its digital channels.

Liam McMullan (2017)

Theatre producer with GBL Productions.

Hannah Pearce (2017)

Visitor services manager at Birmingham Hippodrome.

Tom Hendrick Uebelgunn (2017)

Product manager for Universal Music, Germany.

Ashley True (2016)

Production supervisor at The O2 for AEG.

James Pyrah (2015)

Head of marketing & ticketing for The Warehouse Project and Parklife festival.

Max Emmerson (2015)

Producer, Leeds Playhouse.

Lauren Zawadzki (2014)

Co-founder of award-winning event company Deco Publique, which was crowned Lancashire’s Cultural Organisation of the Year in 2019.

Chris Meehan (2006)

Vice President of Royalty Management Services Sentric Music/Utopia

Vanessa Bakewell (2001)

Head of music, Facebook

Ed Millett (2001)

Co-founder of artist management company, Tap Music. Clients include Ellie Goulding and Lana Del Rey.

Entry

Requirements

96

UCAS tariff points required from level 3 qualifications

For example:

  • A Levels at grade C, C, and C or above
  • BTEC Extended Diploma: MMM  
  • BTEC Diploma: DD
  • UAL Extended Diploma: M
  • T Level: P (C+) 
  • International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 96 points from Higher Level subjects

You also need 5 GCSEs grade 4/C or above including English and Maths or Level 2 equivalents.

Mature applicants (aged 21+): if you do not hold the qualifications listed but have relevant work experience, you are welcome to apply. Your application will be considered on an individual basis.

5.5

IELTS or above

You need to meet our English language requirement - a minimum of IELTS 5.5 for each of the 4 individual components (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening). We also accept other English language examination equivalents. You can find out more about English Language requirements here 

You also need academic qualifications at the same level as UK applicants. You can find out more about qualifications from specific countries here

Mature applicants (aged 21+). If you do not hold the academic qualifications but have relevant work experience, you are welcome to apply.  

Educational qualifications are important but limited in what they can tell us about you.

Your natural ability, your fit with what and how we teach, your growth and your potential are also key factors in our admission process. We can’t evaluate these solely on your educational achievements, so no matter which course you are applying for, we look for the following attributes on your application and at the interview stage.

Key

Attributes

Course Changes

For information on possible changes to course information, please click here.

View the programme specification on the LJMU course catalogue here