Master of Business Administration in Arts Innovation

The course teaches students comprehensive and specialised subjects in entrepreneurial leadership and management for arts innovation; it develops skills in critical thinking and strategic planning for changing and fast-paced environments, including financial and operational analysis; and it develops competences in leadership, including autonomous decision-making, and communication with employees, stakeholders, and other members of a business. These generalized MBA insights are firmly rooted in a curriculum focused on innovation, social entrepreneurship, and the creative arts.

• Target Audience

  • Ages 19-30, 31-65

• Target Group

  • The MBA equips arts entrepreneurs to succeed in today’s complex world through its practical problem-based frameworks, tools, experiences, and methodologies curated by a unique blend of world-class academic institutions, faculty, practitioners, mentors, and coaches. The curriculum is tailored to the needs of arts professionals in multi-dimensional roles seeking creative, entrepreneurial, and operational tools for enhanced impact and leadership.

  • In all cases, the target group should be prepared to pursue substantial academic studies fitting to the MQF level.

• Mode of attendance

  • Full-Time

• Structure of the programme

  • Please note that this structure may be subject to change based on faculty expertise and evolving academic best practices. This flexibility ensures we can provide the most up-to-date and effective learning experience for our students.

• Full-Time:

• Semester I:

• Engaged Aesthetics for Global Development

• Music and the Mind: An Integrated Approach

• Frameworks for Advocacy and Action

• Introduction to Social Enterprise

• Teaching Artistry for Communities

• Making Music Work: Culture and Practice

• Topics in Creative Management I

• Semester II:

• Human-Centred Design

• Organisational Finance Toolkit

• Operational Excellence

• Revenue Strategies; Paths to Financing

• Measuring Results, Evaluating Impact

• Sustained Success: Creativity & Renewal

• Topics in Creative Management II Reflective Collaboration Labs is a yearlong course. The Field Immersion Project follows the end of semester II.

• Grading System - Scale: 0-100 points - Components: 60% of the mark derives from the average of the assignments, and 40% of the mark derives from the cumulative examination - Passing requirement: minimum of 60% overall

• Dates of Next Intake - Rolling admission

• Pass rates - 2023 pass rates will be publicised in the next cycle, contingent upon ensuring sufficient student data for anonymization.

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