Why study BA Music Business and Arts Management at Middlesex University?

From entrepreneurship, project management, and live musicÊto musicology, copyright law, and consultancy, our programme is multi-disciplined, giving you a comprehensive overview of both the music business and arts management. An attractive blend of compulsoryÊand elective modules allows you to specialise, gaining expertise as your studies progress.

Our Performing Arts department has a vibrant character like no other. We offer you regular contact with the professional world, with visitingÊlecturers from industry that provide invaluable knowledge and guidance alongside our core teaching team. All our staff are all either active practitioners or researchers in music orÊbusiness.

Our students have secured, and continue to secure, internships and placements with the likes of the NME, Bath International Music Festival, EMI, the Barbican and The Puppini Sisters, among many others. You can read more on the employment success of our students under the Careers tab on this page.

Course highlights
  • You will have access to key performing arts organisations and performance providers across London and the UK.
  • With exciting work placement opportunities, our careers service offers you a range of support both while you're studying and after you've graduated
  • We run a weeklyÊConcerts and ColloquiaÊseries and invite guest speakers to speak at the University. Previous guests include Mark Lawrence (PRS for Music), Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), Tom Robinson (BBC and singer-songwriter), Dave Tomberlin (Interscope-Geffen-A&M), Dr Shruti Jauhari (KM Music Conservatory, India)
  • In recent years, final-year students have attended MIDEM (Cannes), Berlin, Music Futures (Sage Gateshead), and the AIF Congress (Cardiff)
  • As a student of this course you'll receive aÊfree electronic textbookÊfor every module.