13 Creative Industries Management MA Degree Programs

Emerson College’s online MA in Business of Creative Enterprises is tailored for artists eager to navigate the business side of their creative fields. Whether you’re a musician, designer, actor, or writer, you'll acquire essential business skills to transition your artistic expertise into a successful career. Housed in the School of Communication, the program features cross-departmental faculty who teach leadership strategies and foster a positive work culture based on empathy and equity. Whether you're looking to launch your own venture or advance in your current role, you'll gain valuable experience in strategic planning, finance, marketing, and more.

You want to take an active role in developing sustainability in fashion and management strategies in the creative industries? The study program in Sustainability in Fashion and Creative Industries (M.A.) seeks to educate designers, managers, and experts along the textile chain and other creative industries who engage in shaping the widespread global change towards sustainability.

Develop your skills and knowledge for a career in creative and cultural industries.

In the Creative Industries Master's specialisation, you will come to understand a field buzzing with creativity: where art meets commerce, where culture generates sustainability and societal engagement.

Our multi-faceted course examines the structure and history of the cultural and creative industries and explores practical and theoretical issues facing cultural entrepreneurs, professionals and policy-makers. Using a range of analytical tools from sociology, media and cultural studies, the course draws on the teaching, research and professional expertise of both King's academics and professionals working in the field. Ideally suited for students looking for a career in the cultural, media and creative sectors.

Our course gives you the opportunity to study media industries in the heart of London - one of the world's media capitals. It's been specially designed for those aspiring to work within the media industries, providing students with the practical experience, and digital and transferable skills they need for their careers.

Our Music Business Management MA is highly regarded in both music business education and the industry at large. It will prepare you to become one of the next generations of music industry leaders and entrepreneurs. All teaching staff on the course have comprehensive professional experience or are currently active in the music industry, and industry guests are a cornerstone of our weekly lectures. You'll need to be a self-motivated and open-minded student, as this is an intense course, but one which can help you to progress your career across a wide range of music business disciplines. Working with music industry leaders and organisations, the course has developed a unique curriculum. You'll be able to combine a strong underpinning of key business skills (entrepreneurialism, leadership, organisational management, and marketing) with essential music industry management knowledge (strategic innovation technology, intellectual property and copyright) and academic concepts and theories relevant to the industry today. Teaching is conducted through sessions which each include a formal lecture, industry guest speaker and seminar exercises. Each of the six modules has a minimum of two assignments. The final project (equivalent to three modules) is a report of a minimum of 12,000 words.

The Master's program in Creative Industries Management and Policy is designed for people who want to explore how creative sectors, like music, film, and the arts, are managed and shaped by policies. I...

Hosted by the Department of Visual Studies (VS) and the Department of Philosophy with the support of the Centre for Film and Creative Industries (CFCI) of Lingnan University, the Master of Arts in Creative and Media Industries (MACMI) provides both basic and advanced courses on creative and media industries, i.e. connected fields in film, television, music, performing arts, architecture, visual arts, and interactive media, as well as archive, museum and amusement services, which collectively constitute the most dynamic sector of the cultural economy in Hong Kong. It combines established studies on cultural and creative industries. In response to the needs of Hong Kong society and economy, it aims to provide an interdisciplinary understanding for students to collectively explore the most dynamic sector of the cultural economy and foster development of the emergent field of creative and media industries studies, new to Hong Kong and the region. Aside from required and elective courses, students can complete a research dissertation as a capstone experience, they will engage in independent research and interrogate relevant scholarly perspectives on the object of their study.

The MA in Creative Technologies offers a flexible and innovative program designed for those interested in exploring the intersection of creativity and technology. Students can engage with a range of t...

The Master's degree in Creative Direction - Leadership in the Context of Creative Processes (MA) is aimed at people with a first academic degree in the form of a bachelor's or diploma who want to acquire a further academic degree in addition to their profession or other, for example, family commitments.

The deepest dive into transformative creative leadership for the digital era and beyond. Expanding the reach of creativity, design, and ingenuity in the industry into new territories. This program equips future leaders to create resilience and leads visionary change. Mastery to navigate an uncertain future. Candidates for our Full-time MA Digital Management programs are taken on a transformative journey to become a new kind of leader – one who is adaptive, collaborative, and creatively driven, who can go beyond conventional thinking practices to create effective teams and business value.

Our unique MA gives you all the tools to create the media businesses of the future – in Publishing, Theatre, Games, Film, Television, Music, and Digital Entertainment.