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MA On-Campus Full-time 1 find out £12000 per year £20250 per year

About Music Industry Management, MA - at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

Our course enables you to enhance and develop your management skills, so you can navigate the music industry better and capitalise on career opportunities as a manager within the creative industries. It provides a comprehensive and complementary educational and practical experience, combining postgraduate research with the most up to date management practice.

Throughout the course you explore the fundamentals underpinning successful management practice. This includes management theory, artist and product development, entrepreneurship, organisational structures and behaviours, new music business models, music streaming metrics and data insights that inform business decision making.

The curriculum promotes and supports real-world industry engagement and research through career-led practical project work that contributes to your ongoing professional development and personal career planning.


Entry requirements

Contact The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) to find course entry requirements.


Why study at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

1. LIPA is for those who perform and make performance possible:

  • School of Creative Technologies, Design & Enterprise
  • School of Music
  • School of Performance

2. 92% of graduates are in work or further study (Graduate Outcomes survey published in 2024).

3. 7,450+ alumni across 79 countries

4. LIPA has been listed as one of Billboard's Top Music Business Schools for a fourth consecutive time (2024).