School of Creative Arts and Humanities

Study for an MBA in Arts Management

If you are considering a career in arts management Trinity University College’s MBA is provides the ideal progamme to help you achieve your ambition. It is offered part time or full time, and provides a wealth of networking oppportunities in the sector including work placements.

Am I eligible to apply?

You will be eligible for entry if you have a good first degree or equivalent qualification, or if you have the experience and skills to equip you for higher level study.An arts-based first degree is preferable but not essential, but you must have a strong interest in working in the arts.

What will I study?

The MBA will explore today’s arts and culture issues in depth, and develop the management skills to strengthen your performance within the wider context of arts management issues in Wales, the UK and beyond.

The course is divided into four main elements:

• Arts modules exploring arts funding, client management and the creative industries
• Management modules: finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy, using arts-based case studies.
• Research and project work preparing you for a Dissertation or Major Project.
• Work placements for all students, whether full or part-time, in an arts environment.

How and where will I learn?

Weekly attendance at Trinity University College includes lectures, seminars and group work. You can arrange your own study schedule, keeping in touch with tutors and students via email. Assignments can be tailored to your own context, but they will be designed to broaden your experiences by applying new concepts and techniques.

How much study time will I need?

Each 10 credit module equates to approximately 100 hours of study, including lectures, seminars, reading, and preparing assignments. Overall, the course will take two to three years part time for the full MBA, or up to two academic years for the full time MBA.

Who will support me?

You will always have a contact name and number to refer to, and will also be able to network with fellow students to discuss common issues, and support each other.

How much will it cost me?

You can pay in modular instalments, spreading the financial cost across the lifetime of your course.

Tuition Fees
International Students - Fees

Fees are reviewed annually

Will the course offer me the flexibility I need?

Flexibility is designed into the course to help you achieve your goals whilst meeting your work and life commitments. You also have the option to exit the course at three points, gaining a qualification for the study you have completed:

Postgraduate Certificate (6 modules, 60 credits)
Postgraduate Diploma (12 modules, 120 credits)

In addition, completing the 60 credit Dissertation will give you a full MBA, totalling 180 credits.

Why Trinity?

• Our staff is committed to effective partnership working in the Arts and have wideranging
  teaching and research experience
• The MBA Arts Management is the only one of its kind in the UK
• We offer bilingual delivery where possible
• The MBA is supported by Arts organisations and professionals from all fields
• An MBA increases the range of potential career choices available to Arts professionals
• MBAs are increasingly sought after in public sector organisations under government pressure for improved performance at reduced costs
• MBAs contribute to the success of all businesses, particularly as they scramble for niche markets in an increasingly globalised marketplace
• An MBA increases the self-confidence and personal effectiveness of the manager

Programme Aims

The programme aims to:

• provide students with an integrated and critically aware understanding of Arts Management, and assist them in becoming effective Arts Managers;
• provide students with a firm academic foundation in Arts Management as it has developed in Wales and the United Kingdom;
• enable students to undertake advanced study of arts organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate;
• develop students’ to ability to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management in the arts to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management practice;
• familiarise students with the key texts which form the basis of much of the theory and practice of Arts Management;
• enhance students’ transferable skills of research, interpretation, and critical evaluation;
• develop students’ intellectual skills, including critical reasoning, analysis, creativity and reflection.

Learning Outcomes

Relevant knowledge, understanding and skills

After completing the programme, it is intended that students will have developed the following knowledge, understanding and skills to the appropriate HE level:

• demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of arts organisations, the external context in which they operate and how they are managed;
• demonstrate critical awareness of key themes, debates, and methods relevant  to the discipline and, where appropriate, related disciplines;
• demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of Arts Management and its social and cultural expressions;
• demonstrate critical comprehension of cross-disciplinary issues relating to Arts Management;
• summarise, present, and interpret a range of primary and secondary sources, including materials from different disciplines;
• demonstrate an appropriate range of cognitive, critical and intellectual skills, research skills and relevant personal and interpersonal skills.

Intellectual (thinking) skills

The specific intellectual skills associated with this programme will allow students to:

• respond to arguments, concepts and paradigms, and to critically evaluate them in terms of academic evidence;
• develop the ability to synthesise information, and to interpret and critically analyse texts, from a variety of sources;
• develop the ability to critically analyse and question concepts, arguments, and theories encountered in the course;
• create and develop research ideas which will contribute to the body of knowledge on Arts Management;
• direct and manage their own learning and ongoing professional development;
• show critical awareness about their own responses to Arts Management and be willing to accommodate new principles and understandings.

Professional/Vocational skills

The specific professional/vocational skills associated with this programme will allow students to:

• meet the challenges that contemporary arts managers face;
• engage pro-actively in debates and projects relating to the profession;
• demonstrate ability to retrieve, sift, and select information from a variety of sources;
• analyse and interpret primary and secondary data;
• demonstrate competence in using ICT effectively in presentation and communication;
• plan and undertake small scale research projects.

Key/Common skills

The specific key/common skills associated with this programme will allow students to:

• communicate information, ideas, arguments, principles and theories by a variety of means: for example, essays which are clearly organised and presented;
• communicate information, ideas, principles and theories by appropriate oral and visual means;
• identify, gather and discuss primary data and source material, whether through textual studies or fieldwork;
• manage time, work to deadlines, and prioritise;
• attend to and reflect on the ideas and arguments of others;
• work collaboratively as a member of a team or group;
• undertake independent study (including time management) and reflect on one’s strengths and weaknesses as a learner;
• use library resources in order to identify source material, compile bibliographies, inform research and enhance presentations;
• use IT and computer skills for data capture, to identify source material and support research presentations.

How can I find out more?

Contact the Faculty Office
01267 676863 or 676767
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