Taught Masters degrees in creative industries management

Do you want to combine your creative passions with career-boosting managerial and marketing skills?

Our Masters courses will prepare you for a management career in the creative industries such as festivals, fashion, theatres, museums, digital industries, television, film, publishing, the visual arts, dance and live music venues.

You will learn key management, business and marketing skills as they apply to creative and cultural industries contexts from experienced and award-winning teachers and creative practitioners in the School of Arts and Creative Technologies and the School for Business and Society.

You'll be able to take a range of option modules and tailor your degree to your career aspirations. You'll benefit from being part of a wider creative community with extensive industry connections.

Our courses

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Management in the Creative and Cultural Industries is great for giving you skills to apply your passions to the real world. You'll apply theories you learn and discover how they impact real businesses.

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Industry-standard facilities

You'll have access to our industry-standard facilities, supporting professional-level activities across all areas of performance, screen, and interactive media.

UNESCO city of Media Arts

From digital innovation to media arts, York is a hub for creativity and ideas. Also a member of the Creative Cities network, for two millennia York has been the meeting point for the ideas and creativity of the world.

Work placements

Through our strong industry connections, you will have the opportunity to undertake a voluntary placement with a business in the creative industries in the York area, to help support its digital strategy.

Our facilities

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Scholarships and funding

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Careers

We incorporate masterclasses from industry professionals to support your professional development. As part of our dedicated careers support, you’ll have the opportunity to attend talks, productions and festivals.
The skills you'll develop are highly transferable, allowing you to move onto roles in arts and cultural management, creative business development and production, marketing, arts finance and funding.

Our graduates are the entrepreneurial and innovative creative leaders of the future, contributing to creative and cultural industries that are hungry for new talent and ideas.