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Arts & Cultural Management MA
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This Arts and Cultural Management master’s is designed to meet the needs of today’s arts and cultural managers and professionals across a variety of organisations. It emphasises creativity and criticality, and includes opportunities for arts-based learning, teaching you a range of core competencies that will kick-start your career in arts and cultural management. Thanks to a distinctive mix of theoretical and practical elements, you’ll graduate with developed skills in applying creative leadership and ethical principles in managing artistic excellence, cultural heritage, audience diversity, financial sustainability, and more, at local and global levels.
Key benefits
- Kick-start your career through focused teaching that prioritises creativity and criticality and includes opportunities for arts-based learning.
- Gain insights into management, planning, programming and leadership.
- Develop knowledge of arts and culture across national and international contexts.
- Expand your network and learn from leading arts and cultural industry professionals during guest lectures and workshops.
- Enjoy strong links with London's cultural organisations.
- Join a vibrant Culture, Media & Creative Industries Department that specialises in the field.
“By studying this course, I feel more prepared and excited to work in the creative industries. It allows me to combine my passion for history and interest in business to ultimately pursue my goal of working in a major museum.”
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Employability
This Arts & Cultural Management MA is aimed at anyone passionate about culture and arts and interested in working in cultural organisations, including museums, art galleries, festivals, theatres, performance arts venues, cultural policy bodies, and beyond.
Graduates of this Arts & Cultural Management MA have gone on to a wide range of roles in the cultural and creative industries, for example, in museums and galleries, arts funding, performing arts management, freelance research, creative business development, arts administration, publishing, art marketing, and local governance. Several of our students have gone on to do further academic research.
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Employability
This Arts & Cultural Management MA is aimed at anyone passionate about culture and arts and interested in working in cultural organisations, including museums, art galleries, festivals, theatres, performance arts venues, cultural policy bodies, and beyond.
Graduates of this Arts & Cultural Management MA have gone on to a wide range of roles in the cultural and creative industries, for example, in museums and galleries, arts funding, performing arts management, freelance research, creative business development, arts administration, publishing, art marketing, and local governance. Several of our students have gone on to do further academic research.
Application closing date guidance
We encourage you to apply as early as possible so that there is sufficient time for your application to be assessed. We may need to request further information from you during the application process.
King's College London is committed to the recruitment of students with the greatest academic ability and to maintain a diverse student population. In order to ensure a balanced international student population for our most competitive programmes, we have implemented the following deadlines:
For applicants who are currently residing in mainland China, the first application deadline is 10 January 2025 (23:59 UK time).
- We highly encourage you to apply by this deadline due to high demand, but applications will continue to be reviewed thereafter until the final application deadline on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time).
- If you reside in mainland China and apply for this programme after the above final deadline, your application may be automatically withdrawn and you will not be eligible for an application fee refund.
For all other applicants, our first application deadline is on 9 March 2025 (23:59 UK time). The final application deadlines for this programme are:
- Overseas (international) fee status: 25 July 2025 (23:59 UK time)
- Home fee status: 25 August 2025 (23:59 UK time)
After the first application deadline in March:
- if the programme is not yet full, we will continue to accept applications until all available places are filled up to the final application deadlines above
- if the programme becomes full before the final application deadlines stated above, we will close the programme to further applications
Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline, and we are unable to process further offers because places are filled and we close the course before the final application deadline.
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