MBA Creative Industries Management
1 year full-time, 3 years part-time at UCA Rochester

This is an exciting course offering you the opportunity to develop professional leadership and strategic business skills for the creative industries, spanning design, fashion, film and digital media industries.

The MBA is aimed at ambitious professionals from all disciplines who share a common goal to build business value through entrepreneurship, strategic management and innovation in the creative industries. The course nurtures the management expertise that will become a catalyst for sustainable growth in this increasingly significant business sector.

By being made aware of the challenges that face these industries, you develop your skills in creative thinking in a  management context. Through utilising case studies and participation in live projects, you develop into a professional with the capability to make an immediate contribution to the success of both existing and new creative business ventures.

Francine Norris, Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Creative Industries at UCA , explains more in an interview in an article in  The Times newspaper.

Stage 1
Provides a broad overview of the creative industries context alongside the core management areas of accounting and finance; human resources and organisational behaviour; and operations and marketing.

Stage 2
Considers issues that affect the creative industries. You develop your skills through specialist electives like entrepreneurship, events delivery and product innovation. You also apply your skills to a live business project.

Stage 3
Develop an individually directed research project on a business problem of your choice, which leads to your final thesis.

How this course is taught
The course has a high taught component; however you are also required to sustain your own personal development through periods of negotiation, research and realisation with tutorial support. Initially the course is lecture and workshop-based and utilises individual and group projects. Sessions then become increasingly workshop and project-led (including a live consultancy project). The final stage of the course is self-led, developing strong cognitive skills and self reliance. You benefit from a structured programme of tutorials which support the course work.

How this course is assessed
You are assessed via assignments, individual and group presentations and projects, peer evaluation and a final dissertation/project.